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 <URL:http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/> for a sample. If somebody wants to help tidy up this code and package it for Debian, I will be willing to maintain the Debian package for Debian. This probably will involve going through the README file and fixing the things I have labeled "FIXME" (most of these should be simple to fix, not sure about the bugs in rmfiles yet though). If you want to do any work on it, please let me know simply so I can tell you if I have made any changes (as I do more testing if I find any bugs I may simply fix them without warning). If anyone else is interested, cvs.debian.org might be a good idea, too... A name is required (bin2 doesn't suit IMHO!). Design note: I have tried to make all scripts as simple as possible (except dpkg-scan* which are hacked versions of the Debian programs). Everything uses dsc.pm in order to read the *.changes file, to ensure that the programs remain small. dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources have been hacked to take a file with a list of packages as a parameter. dpkg-scanudebs does the same thing as dpkg-scanpackages but for udebs. Ideally the original versions of these packages should support the functionality required, so these hacked versions wouldn't be required. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
