Package: debarchiver
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Dear Ola,
I am sorry to bring this question again, and sorry that I haven't
filed a wishlist bug to begin with ;-)
Below you can find a patch which provides a very simple feature:
overriding hard-coded default major ('main') with the one provided in
command line (if any). The reason I need to change a major
(main/non-free/etc) is simple. Since my repository is a temporary
storage for some packages which are in the future to be duploaded, I
don't want to tune .changes files in any way. That is why I came up
with a tiny patch to debarchiver which takes care about overriding the
default major, and now I can organize packages in different majors:
# local -- localy used packages (of limited interest/access for outside people)
# alianed -- packages which are simply alianed rpms
# perspect -- perspective Debian packages, which can appear in Debian
main repository and present here temporarily for testin
# backport -- repackaged versions of official Debian packages
And depending on who is using my repository, he might choose to use
only specific majors in his /etc/apt/sources.list line
Please consider the patch if you think it might be useful for anyone
else
--- debarchiver/src/debarchiver.pl 2005-08-21 15:10:55.000000000 -0400
+++ debarchiver-0.4.1-y1/src/debarchiver.pl 2005-09-12 14:49:41.000000000
-0400
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@
@sections = ('main', 'contrib', 'non-free');
+# Default major
+$majordefault = 'main';
+
@mailtos = ();
@ARGS1 = @ARGV;
@@ -206,6 +209,7 @@
This can be used to move away the old packages to
some other place.
--instcmd DEPRICATED!
+ --major section Major to use if undefined (default: main)
-d | --dest dir Destination directory. The base directory where
all
--destdir dir the distribution packages reside. Here the
\$distrib/\$major/\$arch/\$section directory structure
@@ -250,6 +254,7 @@
"(relative to input dir) that will be read before the arguments to this
program
will be parsed. Here you can change the following variables
\$destdir The destination directory (see --destdir above).
+ \$majordefault Default major (see --major above).
\$inputdir The input directory (no effect in $inputconfigfile).
\$cachedir The cache directory for apt-ftparchive, used if
--index is used.
@@ -323,6 +328,10 @@
$destdir = shift @ARGS2;
$destdir =~ s/\/$//;
}
+ elsif (/^--major$/) {
+ $majordefault = shift @ARGS2;
+ $majordefault =~ s/\/$//;
+ }
elsif (/^--cachedir$/) {
$cachedir = shift @ARGS2;
}
@@ -1648,7 +1657,7 @@
if ($section =~ /^\s*$/) {
# on the foo form.
$section = $major;
- $major = "main";
+ $major = $majordefault;
}
return ($major, $section);
}
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.4
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
--Yarik
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