On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for > > handling archives instead? > > Probably because it's too complicated to be of use unless you're > managing something on the scale of the debian archive. It's much easier > to install mini-dinstall and make a directory for your repository than > it would be to install the real dinstall and set up all the database > stuff and other stuff it needs.
Well it depends on the need. As I pointed out in another msg of this thread people should be able to choose the appropriate archive system according to the requirement of what they have to offer. > > > private repositories laying here and there (http://www.apt-get.org as > > mentioned in one of the last DWN), and i know for sure that Brian is not > > the only that will benefit from such scripts. I also had to write my own > > to handle my archive since i was not really satisfied with the others. > > Hmm, I wasn't exactly satisfied with mini-dinstall when I started to use > it, but it seemed like a much better trade-off to contribute feedback > and bug reports than dilute effort with yet another tool to do the same > thing. And now I *am* happy with it, except for a couple of bugs. You have a good point here. Now it is clear to everyone that many people have spent time writing their own scripts to handle pvt archive, meaning a lot of duplicate work. My suggestion would be to have some sort of 3 different archive handlers to satisfy users demand. Entry level - one release (sid/sarge/woody), one arch (probably a simple wrapper for dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansource) Medium level - whatever between entry and insane (something like mini-dinstall????) Insane level - full archive (dinstall) > Eh? Like everyone else on the internet, you have read access to > cvs.debian.org for dinstall's source. > doh! I always forget about cvs because Im not a real fan of it :-) Regards Fabio