Hi Michael, thanks for your bug report, this seems like a viable idea to me.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:27:56AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > …followed by making /tmp/export.tar.bz2 available as > <suite>_<binarypkg>_<version>_alternatives.tar.bz2, e.g. > stretch_vim_2:8.0.0134-1_alternatives.tar.bz2. except that the suite should not be part of that filename, but rather be part of the path, so that next to https://piuparts.debian.org/stretch/pass/vim_2:8.0.0134-1.log there would be https://piuparts.debian.org/stretch/pass/vim_2:8.0.0134-1.alternatives.tar.bz2 > Please consider implementing this feature request. Let me know if this > is something where you’d like some assistance, but it seems to me that > the complexity lies in actually changing piuparts, which is something > where I don’t have any experience. yes, we like some assistance as in patches here. First, you'd need to get piuparts.py to actually produce that tarball and then it needs to be copied from the slave to the master… (I can probably hint you where the relevant code lives…) piuparts maintenance is somewhat understaffed these days… (constant and onetime) help is much welcome! -- cheers, Holger
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