On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:19:36PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:15:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > madison requires connectivity to a Debian database which is not publicly > > > accessible, so it is only useful on a couple of internal Debian > > > machines. For this reason, it probably isn't worthwhile to package it.
<snip> > There's no need for a database unless you want to maintain multiple > distributions out of cross-sections of the pool, as Debian does. <snip> > Or is there a different goal you're describing that I don't understand? Nope. Currently, I'm maintaining a small (~550MB) mirror of testing, and hopefully, I can add a smaller (~100MB) stable mirror to that pretty soon. Therefore, it would be nice if there was a tool to create packagelists from the pool for each distribution. Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to start coding. Kind regards, Admar Schoonen
