I'm looking for 'the' timestamp of the Debian Archive, which will allow me to virtually travel through time to re-generate a specific state of Debian.
Hi Roland,
Quoting Roland Clobus (2022-09-18 10:58:37)
I'm looking for 'the' timestamp of the Debian Archive, which will allow me to
virtually travel through time to re-generate a specific state of Debian.
Holger just suggested on IRC that I reply to your mail -- probably with my metasnap.debian.net and debbisect hats on -- even though there are probably other people who understand snapshot.d.o better than me. I am wondering though:
what is it exactly you want to achieve? If you want to go back in time, then snapshot.d.o already does what you want, no?
What is it that you want to do in the end?
Thanks!
cheers, josch
All of these timestamps (for sid) are close to each other, but not
identical. I would guess that the earliest timestamp is the 'real'
timestamp, but it is accessible (on snapshot.d.o) only with a later timestamp.
As to the origin of my question: The snapshot-mirror has been offline for a while, and I've used deb.debian.org to generate my test images (for the reproducible live-build-based live-ISO images). I've compared the timestamps of the InRelease file at deb.d.o with the timestamp in the URL available on snapshot.d.o and I've noticed a difference. That means that all images that I've generated using deb.d.o cannot be verified at any later moment than within the same dak-round (which last for 6 hours).
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