On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:06:23AM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
If you do not mind I can help you and you can help me to improve
the debarchiver package. I would be happy to include your scripts there.
At the moment I am busy with DAK, but if you want to take over
maintaining my scripts as a
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 02:09, Nick Phillips wrote:
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 12:03 pm, Scott James Remnant wrote:
I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but
for the simple reason that this functionality already exists.
In part; it's not visible to the
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Phillips wrote:
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:48 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
I do not agree with you for different reasons. First of all noone
forces
people to add private archives to their sources.list. If users do that
they should know that things
Hi
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:36:58PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
available at:
URL:http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/.
Interesting.
These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive
with
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
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:03:07PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but
for the simple reason that this functionality already exists.
The namespace of an apt repository is its URL, and any information
available in a Release
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:09:44PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
Which is inadequate; how do you tell whether the following lines access
the same
distribution?
deb http://debian.lemon-computing.com/debian/ stable main contrib
non-free
deb http://debian.otago.ac.nz/debian/ stable main
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented
mess that was a total overkill for my purpose (eg. I don't need a
database).
That complicated and undocumented mess has been running the Debian
Brian May (2002-12-07 16:36:58 +1100) :
I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
available at:
Wonderful. We now have two tools providing almost the same
functionality, except only one does package pools (bin2) and only one
is mature (mini-dinstall, by Colin
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Roland Mas wrote:
Brian May (2002-12-07 16:36:58 +1100) :
I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
available at:
Wonderful. We now have two tools providing almost the same
functionality, except only one does package pools (bin2) and only one
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:03:44PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
Brian May (2002-12-07 16:36:58 +1100) :
I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
available at:
Wonderful. We now have two tools providing almost the same
functionality, except only one does package
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:38:26 +0100 (CET), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for
handling archives instead?
Have you ever looked at katie, jenna and the other girls? They can do
magic, 99 % of which unneeded in the case of
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 06:41 am, Joel Baker wrote:
I'd honestly prefer to see the actual archive scripts (The One True
Archiving Tools, of which all others must, by definition, be
emulations)
packaged and useable by mere mortals, but the last I'd heard, this was
a
long way off, and not
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:38:26 +0100 (CET), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for
handling archives instead?
Have you ever looked at katie, jenna and the other girls? They can do
magic, 99 % of which unneeded in the
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Phillips wrote:
/me wonders whether some concept of namespaces in package names would
be useful before we make it too easy for world + dog to run large
repositories of .debs - Ximian was bad enough on its own, last I had to
recover a system from someone using it... I
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Joel Baker wrote:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:03:44PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
Brian May (2002-12-07 16:36:58 +1100) :
I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
available at:
Wonderful. We now have two tools providing almost the same
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:03:44PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
Wonderful. We now have two tools providing almost the same
functionality, except only one does package pools (bin2) and only one
is mature (mini-dinstall, by Colin Walters). Could we possibly hope
for a merger of those two? I'd
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:19:52PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
Have you ever looked at katie, jenna and the other girls? They can do
magic, 99 % of which unneeded in the case of simple private archives.
I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented mess
that was a total
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:48 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
I do not agree with you for different reasons. First of all noone
forces
people to add private archives to their sources.list. If users do that
they should know that things can break more easily. Sometimes private
archive
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:48:30PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
I do not agree with you for different reasons. First of all noone forces
people to add private archives to their sources.list. If users do that
they should know that things can break more easily. Sometimes private
archive
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 20:51, Nick Phillips wrote:
/me wonders whether some concept of namespaces in package names would
be useful before we make it too easy for world + dog to run large
repositories of .debs - Ximian was bad enough on its own, last I had to
recover a system from someone
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:42:15PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
d-arch-builder?? (debian-archive-builder)
Sounds good.
I have renamed the bin2 directory to darchbuilder.
(unfortunately Perl objected to the - in the directory name).
The new location is now
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
Joel Baker wrote:
And don't forget debarchiver, which doesn't (yet) support pools, but is in
use in a number of places for doing old-style archives, too.
Note that mini-dinstall can generate old-style archives too. That's
what I use for all my repositories.
archive_style = flat
--
see shy jo
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented
mess that was a total overkill for my purpose (eg. I don't need a
database).
That complicated and undocumented mess has been running the Debian
archives successfully and without major
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 12:03 pm, Scott James Remnant wrote:
I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but
for the simple reason that this functionality already exists.
In part; it's not visible to the user, and it's not possible for a
package to specify that it
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 14:44, Joey Hess wrote:
Joel Baker wrote:
And don't forget debarchiver, which doesn't (yet) support pools, but is in
use in a number of places for doing old-style archives, too.
Note that mini-dinstall can generate old-style archives too. That's
what I use for all my
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 17:26, Brian May wrote:
When I last looked at mini-dinstall it didn't seem to try to cater for
many of the tasks required for pools, because it doesn't appear to
support pools.
eg. with pools you need tools to install packages, maintain multiple
Packages files for
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Brian May wrote:
I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
available at:
URL:http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/.
These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive
with multiple distributions, architectures, etc.
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:21:17AM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
Do you have some documentation done somewhere? I wasn't able to find the
README file.
Sorry about that. It is possible that the webserver has somehow
been configured not to display README files.
For now I have renamed it
I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
available at:
URL:http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/.
These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive
with multiple distributions, architectures, etc. No database is
required. See
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