On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 06:23:08AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2009 05:09:31 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > > would be much more interested in making a tool that would make it easier > > > to manage local/partial debian mirrors (i.e. one that helped resolve the > > > dependencies), rather than have an apt-get wrapper. I also think that > > > once such a tool is made, it would make it easier to build an apt-get > > > wrapper that works with it. I don't think that viewing the problem with > > > an "apt-get wrapper" solution is the best way to approach it, but I do > > > think that it would be valuable once the underlying problems are solved. > > > > And reprepro does not fit the bill because? > > > It fits part of the bill, as it's an excellent tool for maintaining a > repository, but it doesn't resolve dependencies (nor should it).
Just in case it might help, here's a script we used internally (at the Sarge time) to maintain a dummy repository that would help us eventually resolve an original list of packages to a complete list of packages we ask a reprepro source to update. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
