Am Mittwoch, den 19.07.2006, 18:36 +0200 schrieb Frederic Lehobey: [..] > > I was talking to Brett Viren about the possibility to host CLHEP and > > GEANT4 .debs at his site, maintaining a repository for unofficial > > physics related packages. So the question is, would other Debian > > Scientists, in fields other than physics, also be interested in using > > this repository? > > > > The idea needs a lot of setup so probably not much will happen > > immediately; this email is mainly to gauge the amount of interest. > > I had in my plans to investigate reprepro and mini-dinstall to see if > they could fit our needs (multiple uploaders...).
Believe me, mini-dinstall will not fit the needs of such a project. I'm also not sure, that reprepro will. AFAIK it was not designed to handle remotely uploaded packages. But I was told, that someone developed a script to handle this. Maybe you should ask Bernhard R. Link about this. Personally I have my own remote repository realized with debarchiver. But this uses a non-pooled architecture. debpool is a similar application, but missed some features (especially in the incoming queue). There was a long discussion between the debpool and debarchiver maintainers and supporters (and another discussion on debian-user-german) to improve or merge both applications. But this is still "work-in-progress" or has been dropped (not sure). So IMHO dak is the only alternative. > I have some > experience with dak but it is not so easy to setup properly (and the > current package in the archive is in need of care). Does mentors.debian.net or debian-unofficial.org use dak? Then we could ask their maintainers for some help/knowledge tranfer. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
