| maru | Hi all. I'm building an emulated environment for cyber security research. In particular, I have a thorough inventory of all applications (with versions) to be installed on a huge number of vms (mostly Ubuntu). I initially resorted to “vanilla” ansible but the problem is with old/superseded versions of packages. In the journey I discovered the fabulous launchpad API, hence the question: can I obtain a package .deb by specifying name | 13:34 |
|---|---|---|
| maru | and version (e.g., openssh 5.9p1) even if superseded/not in the installed OS ppa? | 13:34 |
| cjwatson | maru: Maybe in some cases; not in general and not via apt. If the files in question haven't been entirely purged then it would be possible to copy them (without rebuilding) into a PPA and then pin that PPA using apt. Your question isn't quite specific enough for us to know whether that's possible in this case. | 15:47 |
| maru | unfortunately we are talking about many different packages. My objective is having a fully automated "best-effort" solution that hopefully works on most cases (I am currently looking at: https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/660750 which looks promising) | 15:56 |
| cjwatson | many different packages isn't interesting. many different source *archives* would be interesting | 15:58 |
| maru | why? | 15:59 |
| cjwatson | are you trying to obtain these packages in the sense of downloading them locally, or in the sense of getting them all into a single PPA that you can provision on one of the relevant systems? | 15:59 |
| cjwatson | (or rather, on many of the relevant systems) | 15:59 |
| cjwatson | and are they superseded from the primary Ubuntu archive, or from some random PPA? | 15:59 |
| cjwatson | (you said "the installed OS ppa", which doesn't totally make sense because the primary Ubuntu archive isn't a PPA) | 16:00 |
| maru | On download locally vs ppa: both directions would work in my case, as I have to download and install them on each machine. The second approach would imply building a centralized archive that then could be used as source on all machines (and updated if needed), while the second I guess would be easier/more flexible | 16:03 |
| maru | superseded from the primary ubuntu archive | 16:04 |
| maru | https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/5.5.54-0ubuntu0.14.04.1/+publishinghistory this is a notable example | 16:05 |
| maru | also, is anyone aware of an NVT CPE mapping to actual packages? | 17:05 |
Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!