On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:44:57 +0100 Christoph Biedl
<debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
> Christoph Biedl wrote...
>
> > Looking at
> >
> > https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/
> >
> > it seems debian-ports was not updated for almost half a year now. If
> > that was just an error, please fix it. If it was discontinued by
> > intention, please place according notices - or better, re-consider your
> > decision: For release architectures, there's at least archive.d.o to
> > access some older versions of packages, although in a two-year interval
> > only. For the ports, there's plain nothing.
>
> Having snapshots of the debian ports is important to me. As there was no
> officical reaction of any kind, I've started running my own archive,
> using filesystem snapshots. However, I do not intend to make this a
> public service as I lack the ressources to do this in a sane way, also
> this would only be understood as a competition, life is to short for
> that.
>
> It you, future reader, need access to a particular file, drop me a line.
> As processing will have to be done by hand, answers might take a while.
I also have this problem, and I've also started to archive packages for
ports architectures that I actively use. Having to resort to this is
very unfortunate. The snapshot.debian.org service is extremely useful
for the ports especially as many ports regularly break newer package
versions due to intermittent FTBS issues that cause the 'all' packages
to be out of sync with the arch-specific ones.
Having access to the recent history on snapshot.debian.org means that
you can fetch the matching 'all' package version and fix the problem.
If it's an issue of the ports architectures taking up too much disk
space on Debian's servers, then maybe limit the history of the ports
archive, but please keep it up to date.
Though if I can afford the disk space on my home NAS then maybe the
Debian project also could afford it and this is just a glitch. I'm
hopeful. :)
- Erik
