On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Joel Baker wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:03:44PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
> > Brian May (2002-12-07 16:36:58 +1100) :
> >
> > > I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
> > > available at:
> >
> > Wonderful. We now have two tools providing almost the same
> > functionality, except only one does package pools (bin2) and only one
> > is mature (mini-dinstall, by Colin Walters). Could we possibly hope
> > for a merger of those two? I'd very much like to have a pool-aware
> > mini-dinstall...
>
> And don't forget debarchiver, which doesn't (yet) support pools, but is in
> use in a number of places for doing old-style archives, too.
>
> I'd honestly prefer to see the actual archive scripts (The One True
> Archiving Tools, of which all others must, by definition, be emulations)
> packaged and useable by mere mortals, but the last I'd heard, this was a
> long way off, and not terribly high on most priority lists.
I also maintain my own archive and have developed a rether crazy set of
scripts to mainain it.
Phil.
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