On 02/12/2013 21:05, archlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 02/12/13 14:51, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: >> On 02/12/2013 15:38, archlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> On 02/12/13 10:52, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: >>>> On 02/12/2013 11:12, archlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>>>> I added a new *packages* tree. That offer an easy access to all >>>>>> versions >>>>>> of the same package in the ARM. >>>>>> Documentation[1] has been updated. >>>>>> >>>>> Hello Sébastien, >>>>> >>>>> It's great that we have ARM again - thank you for your good work to >>>>> provide this service. >>>>> >>>>> Would it be possible to add an "all" directory beneath the "packages" >>>>> tree root that contains all versions of all packages? >>>>> Having that would be a direct replacement for what the old arm had and >>>>> would allow getting any version of any package with the same >>>>> pacman.conf >>>>> server string. >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I splited up to avoid listing of all packages and all versions for each >>>> request to this page. I may create a static page with all the links if >>>> this is necessary to have a ctrl+f feature in your browser. Is that you >>>> are looking for? >>> With the old ARM you could use the url in pacman.conf as a "server"link >>> and that allowed you to install packages on a system that would >>> otherwise need updating. This was useful when a package was needed but >>> it was not convenient to do a full update first. So, it would be great >>> if there's was url that can be used in this way to allow Pacman to find >>> old packages. Does that make sense? >>> >> As far I understand your request, it's already the case. Did you read >> the arm wiki page? >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ARM#Time_travel >> >> You can put >> >> Server=http://seblu.net/a/arm/2013/09/11/$repo/os/$arch >> >> or this >> >> Server=http://seblu.net/a/arm/month/$repo/os/$arch >> >> in your pacman.conf. >> > Yes, I did see that on the wiki page but I would like to omit the > "/2013/09/11/" or the "/month/" bit, if that's possible ? > That way, the same server string could be used to access any version of > any package (as long as it's in the archive, of course!) > So, it would just read "seblu.net/a/arm/$repo/os/$arch" (or something > equally static). > Ok, you want a fake db files with all versions of the same package. I don't know if pacman support that. repo-add doesn't. Did you really see this worked? You started by saying that was an old ARM feature, right? -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A
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