Is there a way to pull source for a package (apt-get source) but specify the release? For example, I'd love to be able to just run apt-get source --raring python-imaging. I know I can manually pull from packages.ubuntu.com, is there a tool that can do this for me?
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the release is usually specified in the url of the package source/repo not in the command– RobotHumansMar 4, 2013 at 4:43
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Is the tag rmadison relevant for this question?– jokerdino ♦Mar 4, 2013 at 17:29
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I was thinking rmadison would be part of the solution, perhaps not.– mfischMar 4, 2013 at 22:34
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Kind of.
Assuming you have that release in your sources.list you can do something like this.
apt-get source python-imaging/raring
Of course, if you are going to put other releases in your system sources.list you will also need to put appropriate pinning in place, or your regular use of apt-get will suffer. A better option then, in my opinion, is to use a separate apt environment, temporarily pointing to it using the APT_CONFIG environment variable.
The link below point to a blog post on how I put those pieces together for apt-get download. The exact same principle applies for apt-get source, just that you instead need the deb-src entries in your custom sources.list.
http://blog.bogosity.se/2012/11/03/fully-using-apt-get-download/
