Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Mas <[email protected]> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
* Package name : jenny Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Contact: Roland Mas <[email protected]> * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/jenny * License : AGPLv3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Jenny, an APT repository manager Hi everyone, As part of the development and publication process for Scibian, a Debian derivative used for scientific computing at EDF, we were in need of an APT repository manager that would be somewhere between mini-dinstall/reprepro and the full dak suite. For years we've used wrapper scripts around reprepro, but it became increasingly unwieldy as our needs progressed, so we set out to develop a replacement, using Python/Flask and Aptly as the backend. We'd like to contribute it to the general public, because we believe it's generic enough to accomodate various workflows, simple enough to be installed without huge sets of dependencies, and generally useful enough to be worth it. Also, contributions welcome :-) For some reason, including shared love for the Monty Python, we initially called it Brian; but when it came to going public, Brian was already taken, so we switched to Jenny, the sister of Brian. I just pushed the current code to Salsa, where the renaming hasn't taken place yet. Existing features: - Handles mirroring of external sources into local mirrors - Handles local repositories - Handles several environments for each mirror/repository (can be used for unstable/testing/stable workflows, or dev/iq/prod) - Handles snapshots - Web+CLI UI to list the contents of a mirror/repository - Web+CLI UI to compare the state of a mirror/repository across environments or snapshots - Web+CLI UI to migrate packages across environments - Web UI to migrate packages across environments and mirrors - Web+CLI UI to delete packages from repositories - Automated generation of consistent APT repositories, where each APT repository can contain a specific set of mirrors/repositories/environments - Allows uploading of packages via an incoming folder or via HTTP uploads Known missing features: - Authentication and access control - Scriptability or API (for automated migrations) - Unit tests + a full test suite Implementation details: it's written in Python/Flask, using Aptly as the backend.
