Re: fetching older packages?
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:28:44PM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:29:10 +0100, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> penned:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:23:56AM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> >> 1) Where do I find this older version? In this case it should be the
> >> version that was available on unstable right up until a few hours ago.
> >
> > http://snapshot.debian.net/ will have it.
>
> Ahah! Thank you very much.
>
> Is there a way for me to get a listing of all past versions of a
> package? For example, I knew that I wanted "whatever python2.3 was
> before 2.3.1-1", which turned out to be 2.3-4 -- and I found that out by
> browsing through the pool directories. Is there an easier way?
Reading the changelog's probably simplest.
> >> 4) If I do revert, how do I tell dselect (or apt-get or whatever) not to
> >> upgrade, and how do I know when the newer version is available?
> >
> > Press '=' on the package in dselect, or 'echo PACKAGE-NAME hold | dpkg
> > --set-selections'. dselect will show you the held package among the
> > packages with newer versions available, and you can unhold ('+' in
> > dselect) when you think the available version fixes the bug.
>
> Okay, I've used the = method, but the echoing thing is a great tip!
>
> Is there a way to mark things on "hold" via the apt tools?
I don't think so.
> It seems like apt-get respected dselect "hold" last time I used it ...
> or was I mistaken?
Um, I can never remember :)
> Also, what's the best way to find out that a newer version is available?
> Looks like that's what the "subscription-package tracking system" form at
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python2.3.html does?
Yes, that's a reasonable way to do it. There's a link at
http://packages.qa.debian.org/ to the documentation which explains how
to subscribe to only certain bits of information about a package; if you
just want to know when a new version is uploaded, you want the
'upload-source' keyword. (After the upload you'll have to wait for a
little while - a day or so at most - as it propagates to mirrors
following the daily installation of packages into the pool.)
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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