Quit it... there is a solution to both your qualms. [LWN.net]

Quit it... there is a solution to both your qualms.

Posted May 6, 2004 19:49 UTC (Thu) by gfolkert (guest, #21427)
In reply to: Debian testing by tjc
Parent article: Revealed: how Fedora and the community interact

http://snapshot.debian.net/ apt-get debian packages on specified date (relative date)

deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/date/datestr/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/date/datestr/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/date/datestr/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/date/datestr/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

Note that datestr is datestr recognized by date(1), such as yesterday, 2-days-ago, last-week, 2-weeks-ago. You will get everything JUST like you want.

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Quit it... there is a solution to both your qualms.

Posted May 6, 2004 21:47 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

OK, now that's what I was looking for! Thanks.

Quit it... there is a solution to both your qualms.

Posted May 10, 2004 12:03 UTC (Mon) by zigg (guest, #14265) [Link]

Okay, that's just plain nutty. You get all the same bugs, all the same uninstallable packages, all the same horking -- just two weeks later than everyone else. The only possible advantage you can have is that maybe there might be a fix in two weeks that you can go and pull from unstable.

After gnucash broke last time, I moved to testing. It works. It is not "behind" in any way that causes me any kind of trouble. I pulled one package from unstable -- kernel 2.6.5, to support my wireless card -- and even that is in testing now.

Testing is what you want.