Hi everyone.  Loic pointed me at 'chdist', a nice tool that makes
working with different releases much easier.  You can use it to poke
into and download packages from different releases without setting up
a chroot for each one.  I use from my Maverick host to grab the source
packages from Natty when trying to track down a bug.

For example, I'm looking into adding cortex-strings into the Natty
libc6.  Tell chdist about Natty by running:
 chdist create natty

Update the list of packages using:
 chdist apt-get natty update

Check which version is currently uploaded:
 chdist apt-cache natty show libc6

Grab the source:
 chdist apt-get natty source libc6

The distributions and configuration files end up under ~/.chdist such
as ~/.chdist/natty/etc/apt/.

-- Michael

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