On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 08:29 -0600, John Floren wrote: > grep should nevertheless be able to discover if the sequence > "linux-image" appears in the output, and since it did not I was > looking for guidance on how to find it. Hmm, true. I guess something went wrong with the download, did you manually inspect the results of the download? curl http://snapshot.debian.org/mr/package/ | less > I need to determine specific configuration options that were used to > compile the Debian kernels over time, because those determine offsets > within kernel structures, which is important for some experimentation > I'm doing. I wanted to pull /boot/config-<uname> from each package. That sounds interesting, what are your experiments about? > After some experimentation with Ubuntu kernels, I realized that the > Debian/Ubuntu kernel versioning scheme means I actually want to fetch > the kernel *source* packages, because matching up a Debian kernel > version to a commit on Linus's git tree is Non Trivial. Yeah, that sounds problematic. > I've already fetched a mess of Ubuntu kernel source .debs from > archive.ubuntu.com and set up a script to unpack the deb, make a tweak > to the source, and do the early compilation needed to generate the > offsets I need. I will play around with the API some more today and > see if I can get the Debian source packages I need from that, > otherwise I may have to fall back onto scripting curl. Ok. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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