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Re: package versions on the mirrors



Michael Stone composed on 2020-02-05 22:56 (UTC-0500):

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:30:17PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>>How does one discover package versions on the mirrors? I know linux-image-* is
>>there. How does one search for the versions of it hosted there? apt-show-versions
>>linux-image-amd64 shows only one, and not which repo it comes from. Where does
>>4.19+105+deb10u1 kernel come from?
>>https://wiki.debian.org/PackageManagement/Searching has no example. Which man page
>>covers this?

> Is there some specific problem you're trying to solve? There are so many 
> potential answers to that question, it would help a lot if you were more 
> clear about what you want to accomplish.

It's a recurring problem. I want to compare currently installed version to newer
available version that may or may not be in a standard repo. Then once I know if I
need it and where to find it, I want to be able to install it, mostly or entirely
without a running X or extra PC to access the internet.

This week's exercise is migrating a virtually blind person's HD to new PC because
his old one died, and I didn't recommend an old enough CPU to be supported by pure
Stable. On openSUSE I needed all (or at least most of) the following packages that
came from an optional repo:

S  | Name                 | Type    | Version              | Arch   | Repository
---+----------------------+---------+----------------------+--------+-----------
i  | libLLVM9             | package | 9.0.1-lp151.41.1     | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i  | xorg-x11-server-Xvfb | package | 1.20.7+0-lp151.601.1 | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa                 | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa-demo-x          | package | 8.4.0-lp151.59.2     | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa-dri             | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa-gallium         | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa-libEGL1         | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa-libGL1          | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa-libd3d          | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa-libglapi0       | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | Mesa-libva           | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | libdrm-tools         | package | 2.4.100-lp151.264.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | libdrm2              | package | 2.4.100-lp151.264.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | libdrm_amdgpu1       | package | 2.4.100-lp151.264.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | libgbm1              | package | 19.3.3-lp151.1067.1  | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | llvm9-opt-viewer     | package | 9.0.1-lp151.41.1     | noarch | X11XOrg
i+ | xf86-video-amdgpu    | package | 19.1.0-lp151.64.2    | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | xf86-video-fbdev     | package | 0.5.0-lp151.29.6     | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | xf86-video-vesa      | package | 2.4.0-lp151.37.5     | x86_64 | X11XOrg
i+ | xorg-x11-server      | package | 1.20.7+0-lp151.601.1 | x86_64 | X11XOrg
(plus new enough kernel)

I need whatever will produce equivalent results for Buster, apparently from
backports. CPU is 3200G Ryzen 3 Vega 8, released July 2019.

Audio is also a problem, 1002:15de and 1022:15e3 Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang.
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