Re: Best way to find a version in snapshots depending on existing install

2007-05-04 Thread nicholas
David Goodenough said: I could simple download each version in turn from snapshots and try it, but that might be time consuming. Is there a way of forming a question to snapshots which would tell me which to install? Alternatively is there an easy way to list the dependencies of each version o

Re: Best way to find a version in snapshots depending on existing install

2007-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:10:15PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a machine which is running a fairly old version of Debian, onto which I > wish to add a new package. I have tried various versions of this package but > they all want later versions of things like libc6 than are installed.

Best way to find a version in snapshots depending on existing install

2007-05-02 Thread David Goodenough
I have a machine which is running a fairly old version of Debian, onto which I wish to add a new package. I have tried various versions of this package but they all want later versions of things like libc6 than are installed. Upgrading the machine just for this package is not currently an optio