Peter Palfrader <wea...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote: > >> Peter Palfrader <wea...@debian.org> writes: >> >> > On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> > >> >> So it'd end up like: >> >> >> >> deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110623T151535Z/ snapshot >> >> archive >> > >> >> I can even spare an hour or two to create a patch, if the above is >> >> deemed acceptable. (And hope that I understand the code, so I can >> >> fulfill that promise :) >> > >> > You would have to create Packages and Sources files too, you realize >> > that? (And snapshot doesn't have the meta data needed to populate these >> > files somewhere handy) >> >> Yep. And that might be harder than I anticipate now. >> >> In that case, there's still: >> >> deb http://snapshot.d.o/archive/debian/$date snapshot $package >> >> That should be easier to generate Packages and Sources files for. > > But it doesn't take care of dependencies, which makes it next to > useless. Might as well just wget the file and dpkg -i it.
It helps a little: multi-binary packages are easier to apt-get than wget 3-4 files. Although, arguably not much easier. I'll have a look at the code this weekend, to see if I can come up with anything fancy. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org