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Bug#562823: marked as done (apt: please support searching for packages on snapshot.d.o)

Your message dated Wed, 3 May 2023 09:06:03 +0200
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regarding apt: please support searching for packages on snapshot.d.o
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.24
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

This is a little premature, since s.d.o isn't officially up yet,
but here's a real use case where this would have been cool (:

On dev boxes running unstable, sometimes you just want to pull in
an extra package, without updating the whole machine.  In that case
sometimes "apt-get install foo" will fail, because either foo or
one of its deps is no longer available for download in the pool
with the expected version.

They are however available at s.d.o.  So it would be cool if apt
looked there (or could be told to) automatically if you have a
stale packages list.

This might still need some work on s.d.o, but it seemed worth
tossing the idea out in case people have time to look into it
before I do.

Cheers,
Ron

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 2.7.0

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:28:08PM +1030, Ron wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.24
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a little premature, since s.d.o isn't officially up yet,
> but here's a real use case where this would have been cool (:
> 
> On dev boxes running unstable, sometimes you just want to pull in
> an extra package, without updating the whole machine.  In that case
> sometimes "apt-get install foo" will fail, because either foo or
> one of its deps is no longer available for download in the pool
> with the expected version.
> 
> They are however available at s.d.o.  So it would be cool if apt
> looked there (or could be told to) automatically if you have a
> stale packages list.
> 
> This might still need some work on s.d.o, but it seemed worth
> tossing the idea out in case people have time to look into it
> before I do.

You can now set Snapshot: yes and then pass --snapshot <ID> to
apt update, and apt install, and apt install --update --snapshot <ID>
to do everything in a go.

Some behavior changes are to be expected before 2.8, this is not
exactly optimal yet.
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