On Thursday 18 June 2009 03:17:13 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: > > > I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal > > > distributions can be automated. > > <lazy-way> > Depending on what you want to achieve, a caching proxy might be an easy > solution (there are a specialized in the archive already) > </lazy-way> > Or possibly apt-move called as a post-invoke action of apt-get.
> > > This can be stated as: if a person > > > wants to keep a customised set of packages for usage with the > > > distribution, the tool should be able to develop dependencies, fetch > > > packages, generate appropriate documentation and then create the > > > corresponding directory structure in the target mirror! The task can > > > be extended to include packages which are currently not under one of > > > the standard mirrors! > > <lazy-way> > One don't have to merge the repositories, one can just declare multiple > sources in /etc/apt/* > </lazy-way> > Then it becomes harder to send the package to the appropriate local repository, since they aren't merged. I would also prefer to not have to deal with a merged repository, but keep separate upstream partial mirrors, as they would probably be easier to manage. > > > I think the tool can have immense utility in helping people automate > > > the task of mantaining the repositories. Suggestions, positive and > > > negative are invited. > > > > > > I have not included the impl details as I would first like to evaluate > > > the idea at a feasibility and utility level. > > If the scope of your project includes being able to bootstrap systems > from the mirror, resolving dependency is much more complex (some > packages aren't resolved by dependencies. For instance, the right kernel > is select by some logic in Debian-installer). > I found some interesting logic in debian-cd package. > > Still, I don't consider that allowing bootstrapping is mandatory. Your > project would still be extremely valuable without it. [for those 95% of > the people that install from CD, as opposed to netboot]. > The reason that I recommended tying germinate and reprepro together with a tool was because the original post was discussing "personal distributions". To me, this implies the ability to bootstrap, and also the need to have a "self building" source/binary repository. I have just made some other responses to Goswin that should help explain my view on things a bit better. > Regards, > > Franklin -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson
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