Introducing archive.debian.net
Just the other day I was wondering about what release of Debian a specific version of a package was in, and I knew it was older than oldstable. But searching the Packages files of archive.debian.org was tedious and I thought that there has to be better way. So I quickly set up a packages.debian.org instance for archive.debian.org at archive.debian.net
I guess this isn't really interesting for the day-to-day use, but maybe someone can ocassionally profit from it.
Caveats:
- There are no binary files on archive.d.o for rex and buzz, so currently no information is available about them.
- There are no Sources files available for rex, buzz and bo, only Packages, so no information about the source packages can be presented.
- The two above point of course mean together that there is no usable information at all about rex and buzz. If someone would create the missing indices and convince the ftp-masters to put them on archive.debian.org, I will gladly configure archive.debian.net to use them.
- Changelogs and copyright files are currently only available for pool-using releases, since
the extraction script has some assumptions that depend on that. On archive.debian.org,
the only release that uses
pool/is woody.
Feel free to help me improve that site, preferably by sending patches against the archive-master
branch of git://git.debian.org/git/webwml/packages.git.
Created 2008-05-13 by Frank Lichtenheld, category /en/devel/debian. permanent link, 1 comment(s)
Gerfried Fuchs wrote