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. No database is > required. See > > <URL:http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/> for a sample.
It looks nice. I had to write some scripts to maintain my archive but I have been hitting several problems. I will give them a shot but I would like to have some more information on them. > > 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). Do you have some documentation done somewhere? I wasn't able to find the README file. > > 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). Well probably yes. I would love to read the doc (except the code itself) and testing it. > A name is required (bin2 doesn't suit IMHO!). d-arch-builder?? (debian-archive-builder) > dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources have been hacked to take a file > with a list of packages as a parameter. Did you add the fuctionality or just a simple hack? maybe handling it as an cmd line option (ex: --file-list <file>) will make life much easier and merge with the original one much faster without breaking the normal functionalities. Looking forward to try it. Fabio
