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7 NeuroDebian repository snapshotting
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10 The official Debian snapshotting service (http://snapshot.debian.org) allows
11 obtaining any version of any software that was ever present in Debian, and
12 provides a complete state of the Debian archive with all software versions
13 corresponding to a specific date. We are going to adopt this service to
14 provide this functionality for the NeuroDebian repository itself, thus
15 covering backports of our packages for all supported Debian and Ubuntu
16 releases, as well as staging packages that have not been accepted into Debian,
17 but may already be used by researchers. Used in conjunction with the official
18 Debian snapshotting repository, it would allow for the reconstruction of
19 entire research environments or simply for installation of a particular
20 previous version of a product of interest.
23 .. _`Debian snapshotting service`: http://snapshot.debian.org/
29 We have adapted http://snapshot.debian.org implementation to snapshot
30 NeuroDebian repository and snapshotting service was deployed on 2010-10-12.
32 .. todo:: NeuroDebian snapshotting service
34 * Provide web-frontend to access existing snapshots within NeuroDebian