Re: How to obtain older package versions?

[Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:21:28AM +0200, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
> On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote:
> pour Monsieur)> Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is 
> now in
> > unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in
> > sid being 1-7).
> >
> > Thanks for help.
> >
> > Andrei
> 
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> Apparently you can find xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-6.diff.gz on the mirrors,
> which I suppose can be used to install version 1-6 from another
> version using a diff, but I don't know how to do that. Good luck
> Andrei.
> 
A diff can only be used if you build the package from source code.


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