http://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/archive/debian/ works and http://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/archive/debian doesn't

[safinaskar]

URL http://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/archive/debian/ works and URL http://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/archive/debian doesn't. Here is wget output:

d-user@comp:/tmp$ wget http://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/archive/debian/
--2022-10-22 18:12:17--  http://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/archive/debian/
Resolving debian.notset.fr (debian.notset.fr)... 80.11.163.215
Connecting to debian.notset.fr (debian.notset.fr)|80.11.163.215|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

index.html                                  [      <=>                                                                       ] 818,82K   536KB/s    in 1,5s    

2022-10-22 18:12:19 (536 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [838475]

d-user@comp:/tmp$ wget http://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/archive/debian
--2022-10-22 18:12:21--  http://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/archive/debian
Resolving debian.notset.fr (debian.notset.fr)... 80.11.163.215
Connecting to debian.notset.fr (debian.notset.fr)|80.11.163.215|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://debian.notset.fr/archive/debian/ [following]
--2022-10-22 18:12:21--  http://debian.notset.fr/archive/debian/
Reusing existing connection to debian.notset.fr:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2022-10-22 18:12:21 ERROR 404: Not Found.

P. S. Thanks a lot for service. I plan to use it. It would be very cool if you also add stretch suite and also stretch-updates and stretch/updates

[rclobus]

Hello safinaskar,

I have 2 questions:

1. Which tool/configuration are you using that you need to access archive/debian without the trailing slash?

2. Why would you want to use snapshots for stretch? That is oldoldstable, you'll find the repository on archive.debian.org and (since there will be no updates) you don't need to use the snapshot server for that.

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

[safinaskar]

1. Trailing slash doesn't matter for my tools. This is question of taste. I think that every time web server process a and a/ differently is a bug.
2. My main OS is debian stretch. I'm writing tool for creating reproducible images for reproducing bugs. Currently I have to have this in my code:

  if [ "$CODENAME" = stretch ]; then
    MIRROR="http://deb.debian.org/debian"
  else
    MIRROR="http://snapshot.notset.fr/archive/debian/$TIMESTAMP"
  fi

If notset.fr have stretch, I will be able to delete this conditional. But, of course, feel free to keep stretch out of archive, it will be OK for me to keep this conditional

[rclobus]

Please note that Debian Stretch was end-of-life on 2020-07-18, more than 2 years ago.

I've done a lot regarding reproducible live images, see my Wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages
In the git-repository of live-build you'll find in the test folder 'rebuild.sh', which probably already does a lot of the things you might want to do.

Bookworm has reproducible live images, without any special hooks, and bullseye needs only a few of them.
Automated tests are already running on Debian architecture: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/live/ and https://openqa.debian.net/group_overview/14

[safinaskar]

I used slightly incorrect term. I don't need reproducible images (i. e. bit-to-bit identical images). I need images, which are similar to "real" ones (i. e. installed using normal d-i on default settings) as closely as possible. Currently I use my thin wrapper around debootstrap, then I plan to switch to thin wrapper around automated d-i. I don't trust not-so-widely-used tools such as live-build, debuerreotype, mmdebstrap, because they introduce their own modifications to images (as opposed to d-i or debootstrap).

I need all this for reproducing bugs.

Using live images sometimes introduces their own bugs, such as this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832999 (I found this bug a lot of time ago, I hope it is fixed now)

[fepitre]

I can tune my reverse proxy but it works as expected. Also, I don't want to add stretch. There is no value added for Reproducible Builds perspectives.

[fepitre]

It should be solved now.