Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-08-08 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Long before I heard about reprepro, I also wrote my own Python script to manage my local and remote Debian repositories (and I'm still using it): http://people.debian.org/~frn/fmdr documented at: http://people.debian.org/~frn/fmdr.txt To follow the pattern on

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-08-01 Thread Cameron Dale
On 31 Jul 2007 09:53:16 -0400, Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me describe my situation: I have a flat (single directory) archive of personal debs. I see absolutely no point in maintaining code names and suites and what not. So I put the debs into /var/local/debian (which apache

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-08-01 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 31.07.2007, 09:53 -0400 schrieb Ian Zimmerman: [..] Neil I get: Neil Failed to fetch Neil http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages/unstable/amd64/Release Neil Unable to find expected entry Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) And this is my main

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Here is how I manage my people.d.o repo. The following is ~/bin/update-archive: #!/bin/bash # -*- Mode: Sh -*- # update_archive --- # Author : Manoj Srivastava ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) # Created On : Tue May 10 10:14:46 2005 # Created On

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Neil Time for a bug report, I think. But in order to actually get the Neil thing working, I need more help. Have you ever filed the report? I can't find it searching on b.d.o. Neil I get: Neil Failed to fetch Neil http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages/unstable/amd64/Release Neil Unable to

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-07-31 Thread Neil Williams
On 31 Jul 2007 09:53:16 -0400 Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Time for a bug report, I think. But in order to actually get the Neil thing working, I need more help. I wish you'd included the fact that the original email is from: Date: 2006-07-28 21:09 +100 It's very confusing

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ian And this is my main question: have you figured out what causes this error? Neil Yes - the error is caused by not using reprepro. Neil :-) I am afraid from my POV this is not particularly funny. The documentation (i.e. the apt manual and the secure apt wiki) doesn't mention reprepro (or

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-07-31 Thread Julien Valroff
Le mardi 31 juillet 2007 à 12:51 -0400, Ian Zimmerman a écrit : Neil reprepro doesn't force these on you but it does not stop you Neil adding them later either. Ian OK, I'll take a look at reprepro. I did. reprepro still wants me to have a pool and dists subdirectories, at the very

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-07-31 Thread Cameron Dale
On 31 Jul 2007 12:51:39 -0400, Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did. reprepro still wants me to have a pool and dists subdirectories, at the very least. This just makes it more complicated to maintain, in particular to upload the debs. I don't think reprepro is the right tool for my

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ian I don't think reprepro is the right tool for my job, either. Ian Again, this is _not_ a mirror. It is just a bunch of debs (about Ian 30 right now) that I build myself on a desktop machine, then upload Ian to share with other client machines. Ian Ian Is _anyone_ else doing this? Seems like

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-07-31 Thread Cameron Dale
On 31 Jul 2007 13:59:34 -0400, Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cameron How is uploading complicated? I added a post-upload script to Cameron dupload so I can just do (on any machine) dupload --to sid Cameron foo.changes apt-get update and it all just works, I don't Cameron even have to

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2007-07-31 Thread Neil Williams
On 31 Jul 2007 13:59:34 -0400 Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that I have to describe exactly what I do from the point of build. In the source directory of a package, I do fakeroot debian/rules binary that will create a file ../foo.deb, then dput foo_version_arch.changes

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-28 Thread Neil Williams
George Danchev wrote: On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:20, Neil Williams wrote: --cut-- That's what I used to use but this method can't be used with mini-dinstall. It looks like your repository is a single subdirectory whereas mine uses multiple subdirectories for the multiple architectures. Each

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... [snip] I'm now trying a brute force method: $ cp /home/neil/Release.amd64 ./Release $ md5sum Packages Release $ md5sum Packages.gz Release $ echo SHA1: ./Release $ sha1sum Packages ./Release $ sha1sum Packages.gz ./Release

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-28 Thread Neil Williams
Darren Salt wrote: What I use for my repository is attached. (Licence is GPL = v2.) Excellent! Thank you! I've tweaked it a little so far to accept the architecture name as the first command option and I'm running it manually after changing into each directory. It should be simple to automate

mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Williams
I'm trying to sort out my trivial apt repository properly so that my sponsor can obtain my packages more easily. I've generated a gpg key to sign the Release files and I'm using mini-dinstall on the server. It appears to be working, Release and Release.gpg are created and gpg can verify that the

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:33:04PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: [...] I've generated a gpg key to sign the Release files and I'm using mini-dinstall on the server. It appears to be working, Release and Release.gpg are created and gpg can verify that the signature is good. [...] Yet apt-get

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Williams
Jeremy Stanley wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:33:04PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: [...] I've generated a gpg key to sign the Release files and I'm using mini-dinstall on the server. It appears to be working, Release and Release.gpg are created and gpg can verify that the signature is good.