Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, le mar. 24 avril 2018 22:25:18 -0300, a ecrit:
> > This is starting to shape up pretty nicely. I was able to add a whole
> > bunch of additional architectures thanks to cross compilers in Debian
> > Sid which are there to support the Debian "ports". These may not be
> > around for ever, most "ports" are on the way out, but they will be the
> > last thing to drop out of the Sid repo. Maybe when Debian stops
> > caring (and no other distro does) maybe we should to?
> 
> I *think* working with Sid is not recommended as very unstable and not
> reproducible. A reproducible way is to use the Debian Snapshot Archive
> (http://snapshot.debian.org/) eventually using package specific version
> and holding packages at this version.
> 
> I found an example in the following post:
> https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2017/07/17/how-to-install-packages-using-repository-snapshot/
> 
> (I Cc'ed Debian experts who might have a better idea).

That looks like the correct idea :)
(basically what we use to make "releases" of the hurd port, as sid
snapshots).

Samuel

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