On 15 March 2013 00:56, Philip Ashmore <cont...@philipashmore.com> wrote: > On 09/02/12 08:58, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: >> >>> I think Debian needs a way to be able to pick a point in history and >>> obtain >>> at least the versions + patches of all the source packages that would >>> have >>> been installed / available to reproduce the Debian system running on the >>> users machine at the time they reported the bug. >>> >>> With more and more source packages becoming available under publicly >>> accessible version control, what needs to change in Debian to make this >>> possible? >> >> >> Nothing, it already exists: >> >> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20091229T215155Z/ > > How do I work out which snapshot I have installed now? > I download from Sid. >
Take the checksum of Packages from /var/lib/apt/lists and find a matching one on snapshots. It will be close, but not everything. A better way is to use apt-clone which will generate a more comprehensive state tarball. > Is there a micro-version file that stores this information or is it a time > stamp on some file? > How would that help at all? Given that it will never know the set of packages you have installed, or obsolete packages not-removed, modified conffiles etc. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canbhluhmbhhn+vlxjufhtdffrq3j9z2r9mx4w3phq3cnki6...@mail.gmail.com
