Re: Bug#46436: [wishlist] apt -- moving average
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:53:08PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
>
> > I think the unstable distribution would be more useful if there was a way to
> > get only files in unstable older than a configurable number of days. This
> > line of thinking it motivated by the recent "lilo" problems in unstable. A
>
> This is not technically possible with the current configuration of the FTP
> Archive. If you want to see this feature you will have to lobby the policy
> and ftp maintainer groups.
Jason, what about the ftp setup would prevent such a method from working? an
ls -lR should show the package date/time info for all the packages, and then
just ignore the ones that are newer than x number of days ago? Perhaps the
control file would also need to be updated to include the package inclusion
date (to resolve what to do with current ones, just give them today's date,
since none will be newer than that.. :) so that an ls -lR could be avoided..
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