On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 12:20:55AM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > El 1/11/18 a las 3:09, Matija Nalis escribió: > > trying any search on https://historical.packages.debian.org/ produces error: > > > > 404 > > Not Found > > > > The requested URL /cgi-bin/dispatcher.fcgi/search was not found on this > > server. > > Apache Server at historical.packages.debian.org Port 443 > > Unfortunately historical.packages.debian.org website has not been fully > setup yet. Meanwhile the issues get fixed, maybe > https://snapshot.debian.org/ serves for your needs (it works in a > different way than packages.debian.org, though).
Thanks Laura, Unfortunately web search at https://snapshot.debian.org does not help my purpose (which was finiding latest published version of package for old Debian distributions), as it does not list which version was in which Debian version. I could've probably used the instructions there to create apt sources.list with snapshot.debian.org URLs and using "apt-cache search" to browse the packages, though. In the end (as I didn't want to upset current machine apt cache) I've instead opted to fetch: http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/dists/woody/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 etc. and grep through that manually. It would be nice if https://historical.packages.debian.org search could be fixed eventually, though. -- Opinions above are GNU-copylefted.
