Re: fetching older packages?

2003-10-02 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Just like to say thanks for this, I am an apt-get commandline user, and was thinking it would be nice to have old libraries sorted out at the same time when upgrading libs and packages.:) I will be having a closer look at it in the future. rohan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a problem with it ... occasionally using apt command-line tools when necessary ... Seems like a lot of people don't care for dselect. What do you find wrong with dselect, and why do you like aptitude

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/09/03 20:56), Joey Hess wrote: I used dselect for 6 years or so. I have even fixed some of its bugs and added things like configurable colors to it. Eventually though, it just comes time to move on to the next better thing. Aptitude has many features dselect lacks. For me the killer

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-10-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 05:14, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:16:11 -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: I don't remember (don't use apt-get these days). Aptitude does. I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a problem with it ...

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 27. September 2003 17:48 schrieb Monique Y. Herman: She, but otherwise mostly right. It turns out that I didn't need to uninstall 2.3, anyway, though -- just had to revert one version. Sorry, Moni. I didn't read the name because it

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:56:18 +0200, Werner Mahr [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 27. September 2003 17:48 schrieb Monique Y. Herman: She, but otherwise mostly right. It turns out that I didn't need to uninstall 2.3, anyway, though --

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: Is there a way to mark things on hold via the apt tools? I don't think so. aptitude hold packagename It seems like apt-get respected dselect hold last time I used it ... or was I mistaken? Um, I can never remember :) I don't remember (don't use apt-get these

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:16:11 -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: I don't remember (don't use apt-get these days). Aptitude does. I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a problem with it ... occasionally using apt command-line tools when necessary ... Seems

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:16:11 -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: I don't remember (don't use apt-get these days). Aptitude does. I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a problem with it ... occasionally using apt command-line tools when

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-27 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 26. September 2003 21:29 schrieb Colin Watson: 3) The python 2.3.1-1 package depends on the python 2.3 package depends on the python package. How am I to understand these dependencies? Could I just remove the 2.3.1-1 package and

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:29:10 +0100, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:23:56AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Anyway, this brings up the question, how do I revert to an older version of a package? A friend pointed out that I can just dpkg -i whatever.deb, where

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:28:44PM +, 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 +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: 1) Where do I find this older version? In this case it should be the version that

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Monique Y. Herman wrote: 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?

fetching older packages?

2003-09-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I just used dselect to update all of my packages on unstable, only to find that apparently the latest python (2.3.1-1) has a nasty bug that messes up my tmda-based filtering system. (I use tmda primarily for the easy-to-grok filtering syntax, so please don't flame me regarding c/r systems --

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:23:56AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Anyway, this brings up the question, how do I revert to an older version of a package? A friend pointed out that I can just dpkg -i whatever.deb, where whatever is the older version, but I still have questions: 1) Where do

Re: Older packages

2002-11-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 20:34 2002-11-14 + hat Pigeon geschrieben: Searched the Debian site without success. Where can I find the packages for release 2.1? I'm after libpam0g-dev and anything needed to satisfy its dependencies. Pigeon What about:

Older packages

2002-11-14 Thread Pigeon
Searched the Debian site without success. Where can I find the packages for release 2.1? I'm after libpam0g-dev and anything needed to satisfy its dependencies. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Older packages

2002-11-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: Searched the Debian site without success. Where can I find the packages for release 2.1? I'm after libpam0g-dev and anything needed to satisfy its dependencies. http://archive.debian.org/dists/Debian-2.1/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Older packages

2002-11-14 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:36:25 -0500 (EST), Mike Dresser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: Searched the Debian site without success. Where can I find the packages for release 2.1? I'm after libpam0g-dev and anything needed to satisfy its dependencies.

Re: Is there a way to get older packages?

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:39:04PM -0800, jennyw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For example, I'd like to install an older version of php (the current one in Woody, which I'm using, is 4.0.100 which reports itself as being 4.1.0rc2). Or do I need to download the source and build? Check list

Re: Is there a way to get older packages?

2001-12-02 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: Check list archives. I belive someone's now archiving older testing/unstable packages. Recent versions of unstable packages that I use on one or more of my machines are archived at http://crdic.ath.cx/debian . Craig

Is there a way to get older packages?

2001-12-01 Thread jennyw
For example, I'd like to install an older version of php (the current one in Woody, which I'm using, is 4.0.100 which reports itself as being 4.1.0rc2). Or do I need to download the source and build? Thanks! Jen

Re: Is there a way to get older packages?

2001-12-01 Thread Shaul Karl
For example, I'd like to install an older version of php (the current one in Woody, which I'm using, is 4.0.100 which reports itself as being 4.1.0rc2). Or do I need to download the source and build? Thanks! Jen As far as I know, older versions of woody packages are not saved. --

Re: Is there a way to get older packages?

2001-12-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
jennyw wrote: For example, I'd like to install an older version of php (the current one in Woody, which I'm using, is 4.0.100 which reports itself as being 4.1.0rc2). Or do I need to download the source and build? Thanks! Jen If you had previously installed older version with apt-get,

Re: older packages

2000-07-09 Thread Stephan Hachinger
: older packages Where can I find older debian (woody) packages? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: older packages

2000-07-09 Thread Bruce Sass
have a look at: http or ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/ - Bruce -- On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian mirrors with old packages there. - Original Message - From: Marcin Kurc [EMAIL

older packages

2000-07-08 Thread Marcin Kurc
Where can I find older debian (woody) packages? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu