Source of older package version?

[Petr Menšík]

I do not have builds for every version. I think copr allows to serve 
multiple versions from the same repository. It depends on copr owner how 
many builds he keeps there.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pemensik/bind-9.20/

I try them only sometime. Not every release is there. You did not even 
specify your distribution. It would be relatively easy with Fedora to 
make your own rebuilds even with versions I have missing.

Source: 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/pemensik/rpms/bind/tree/rawhide-9.20

How to rebuild:

git clone https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/pemensik/rpms/bind
git checkout rawhide-9.20

dnf install fedpkg
dnf builddep *.spec

edit version in spec file # find Version: and change it.

spectool -g *.spec # downloads new sources
fedpkg --release f42 local # consider using mockbuild.

That would allow you to build any version not present in the repo. On 
Centos similar package is centpkg. --release would accept values like 
c9s or c10s in it. rpmbuild needs a bit modified directory structure.

But in general, git bisect is amazing tool and you would likely want to 
know which commit or merge request it was related to in the end. That is 
much easier to find from original isc bind9 git repository, as you were 
advised before. But I admit it is not so simple to start and especially 
uninstall such test builds. You can configure the parameters with the 
same flags as the package does. named -V will print flags used in 
configure, use named from package to get values used by your 
distribution, then pass them to ./configure on your git checkout. You 
can use dnf builddep *.spec trick to get dependencies needed to build it 
from upstream sources git later.

If bind 9.18 version would be enough, fedora should have almost all 
versions:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=314

But 9.20 is available from my or ISC copr only, because we still do not 
have 9.20 in official Fedora repos.

Hope that helps,
Petr

On 03/11/2025 16:15, John McNulty wrote:
> Thanks, but I was looking for binary / rpm packages rather than source.
>
> Are sources my only option ?
>
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 at 14:45, Victoria Risk <vicky at isc.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>>     On Nov 3, 2025, at 9:24 AM, Bjørn Mork via bind-users
>>     <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
>>
>>     John McNulty <johnmcn1 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>     I'd like to step back through the versions to find out which
>>>     release after
>>>     9.20.7 introduced the change in behaviour before filing a bug
>>>     report.  But
>>>     I've not been successful in locating a source that contains
>>>     them.  Copr
>>>     only holds the latest release.
>>
>>     They're available as tags in git at least.  Makes easier to
>>     bisect the
>>     issue.
>
>     And just FYI, every release since the dawn of time is available
>     somewhere on downloads.isc.org <http://downloads.isc.org>. Look in
>     https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/
>     for versions since 2000…..
>
>
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