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uselpa · 2005-04-04 06:10:41

Is there any repository who keeps older versions of software?
For example, if I were looking for the latest KDE 3.3 package, can it be found in any official repository?
In any unofficial?
Or, at least, its buildscript?

dtw · 2005-04-04 06:28:49

yeah - you can find the build scripts in abs on the web actually. it's easy.

go to the packages page on the main website (linked at the top), type the package name in the search, you'll get results, click the name of the pkg you want. it will bring up a new page of details about the pkg, click "view cvs entries". click the PKGBUILD, you'll get a new page and you need to click "view all branches" button at the bottom and now you can review previous versions and use the download link to get the PKGBUILD - how's that?

you can also look in /var/cache/pacman/pkg - the old pkg my still be in there

uselpa · 2005-04-04 06:57:17

dibblethewrecker wrote:

yeah - you can find the build scripts in abs on the web actually. it's easy.

Cool! Thanks.

dibblethewrecker wrote:

you can also look in /var/cache/pacman/pkg - the old pkg my still be in there

If not - are the ABS scripts *always* guaranteed to work on pristine sources?

pixel · 2005-04-04 08:45:59

Check this out:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/

uselpa · 2005-04-04 08:57:16

Wow! Just what I was looking for. Thanks.
I owe you a pizza ;-)

dtw · 2005-04-04 10:40:57

um - yeah the PKGBUILDS "should" work but it were a really old pkg and gcc had been updated about ten times then maybe it wouldn't build so in that way no, not guaranteed as such...

Arch Linux

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