On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:28:44PM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:29:10 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:23:56AM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> 1) Where do I find this older version? In this case it should be the > >> version that was available on unstable right up until a few hours ago. > > > > http://snapshot.debian.net/ will have it. > > Ahah! Thank you very much. > > Is there a way for me to get a listing of all past versions of a > package? For example, I knew that I wanted "whatever python2.3 was > before 2.3.1-1", which turned out to be 2.3-4 -- and I found that out by > browsing through the pool directories. Is there an easier way?
Reading the changelog's probably simplest. > >> 4) If I do revert, how do I tell dselect (or apt-get or whatever) not to > >> upgrade, and how do I know when the newer version is available? > > > > Press '=' on the package in dselect, or 'echo PACKAGE-NAME hold | dpkg > > --set-selections'. dselect will show you the held package among the > > packages with newer versions available, and you can unhold ('+' in > > dselect) when you think the available version fixes the bug. > > Okay, I've used the = method, but the echoing thing is a great tip! > > Is there a way to mark things on "hold" via the apt tools? I don't think so. > It seems like apt-get respected dselect "hold" last time I used it ... > or was I mistaken? Um, I can never remember :) > Also, what's the best way to find out that a newer version is available? > Looks like that's what the "subscription-package tracking system" form at > http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python2.3.html does? Yes, that's a reasonable way to do it. There's a link at http://packages.qa.debian.org/ to the documentation which explains how to subscribe to only certain bits of information about a package; if you just want to know when a new version is uploaded, you want the 'upload-source' keyword. (After the upload you'll have to wait for a little while - a day or so at most - as it propagates to mirrors following the daily installation of packages into the pool.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]