Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors
2009/6/10 sanket agarwal snktagar...@gmail.com: Hi all, We all know that there are various distro's that build around Debian. I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal distributions can be automated. This can be stated as: if a person wants to keep a customised set of packages for usage with the distribution, the tool should be able to develop dependencies, fetch packages, generate appropriate documentation and then create the corresponding directory structure in the target mirror! The task can be extended to include packages which are currently not under one of the standard mirrors! I think the tool can have immense utility in helping people automate the task of mantaining the repositories. Suggestions, positive and negative are invited. I have not included the impl details as I would first like to evaluate the idea at a feasibility and utility level. How is this different from having a partial mirror and a full backing mirror? (set the priority of your partial mirror higher with apt preferences and it should override the backing mirror) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:21:24AM +0530, sanket agarwal wrote: Hi all, We all know that there are various distro's that build around Debian. I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal distributions can be automated. This can be stated as: if a person wants to keep a customised set of packages for usage with the distribution, the tool should be able to develop dependencies, fetch packages, generate appropriate documentation and then create the corresponding directory structure in the target mirror! The task can be extended to include packages which are currently not under one of the standard mirrors! I think the tool can have immense utility in helping people automate the task of mantaining the repositories. Suggestions, positive and negative are invited. I have not included the impl details as I would first like to evaluate the idea at a feasibility and utility level. repropro is one of the tools that can help you maintain such a modified pool. Note that you'll have to re-sign the generated repository yourself. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors
Hi all, We all know that there are various distro's that build around Debian. I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal distributions can be automated. This can be stated as: if a person wants to keep a customised set of packages for usage with the distribution, the tool should be able to develop dependencies, fetch packages, generate appropriate documentation and then create the corresponding directory structure in the target mirror! The task can be extended to include packages which are currently not under one of the standard mirrors! I think the tool can have immense utility in helping people automate the task of mantaining the repositories. Suggestions, positive and negative are invited. I have not included the impl details as I would first like to evaluate the idea at a feasibility and utility level. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
