Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-10 Severity: wishlist * Package name : package-pool-helper Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : not yet available * License : GPL Description : Simple scripts to manage a local package pool
This package contains scripts to help local site administrators to manage their own package pools which might contain fixed, patched, backported or new packages complementing a Debian distribution. mkdists scans a directory tree for files named 00distributions that contains information about packages and which distribution they will go into. The information found in 00distributions will then be processed into a package list file that is used by apt-ftparchive to build Packages.gz files for all distributions that have packages configured. A Release file that contains md5sums of the packages will be created as well. editdistlist scans the local directory for package files that are not yet present in 00distributions, adds them to 00distributions's end and fires up an editor allowing the user to place the new package files into a distribution. The scripts included in this package don't target sophisticated archive management like katie. They are sufficient to manage a local pool of packages that a site with a few dozen of differently-configured machines needs for efficient systems administration. Putting the package-distribution relationship files in the same directory than the package files makes distribution management easy and fast. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux darren 2.4.21-coreserver #1 SMP Fri Jun 20 15:44:17 UTC 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
