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Native ZFS packaging for Debian and Ubuntu
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Debian: How to install specific version of zfs? #174

Closed xuanngo2001 closed 8 years ago

xuanngo2001 commented 9 years ago

Debian: How to install specific version of zfs? I don't want to always get the latest version from the repository. Is it possible to keep at least the previous version for a certain time(month?) instead of purging old version when new version is out. New version might not be stable or new behavior is not desired. Installing from source is not practical.

FransUrbo commented 9 years ago

Original issue: zfsonlinux/zfs#3843

ghost commented 8 years ago

Unrelated to ZFS, and doesn't really help you get earlier versions, but if you install cron-apt https://packages.debian.org/stable/cron-apt and leave it configured only for downloading, you can copy the files out of /var/cache/apt/archives. You can then trivially set up a cron job or even a post-download script in /etc/cron-apt/action.d to copy the .debs to a stable location where they will be available for future reference and use. It shouldn't be too hard to write a script to delete old versions after a while. All paths mentioned here assuming no special configuration.

FransUrbo commented 8 years ago

I'm now keeping old versions, so I'm closing this.