Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > On Sunday 21 June 2009 03:33:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> > The Release could be signed using an rsign method with the machine(s) >> > that manage the repository, or it could be done locally on the server >> > using gpg-agent, or an unencrypted private key, dependi

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-25 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Sunday 21 June 2009 03:33:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The Release could be signed using an rsign method with the machine(s) > > that manage the repository, or it could be done locally on the server > > using gpg-agent, or an unencrypted private key, depending on how the > > administrator

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > On Saturday 20 June 2009 03:16:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> But now you made me think about this too. So here is what I think: >> >> - My bandwidth at home is fast enough to fetch packages directly. No >> need to mirror at all. >> >> - I don't want to download a pac

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-20 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Saturday 20 June 2009 03:16:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joseph Rawson writes: > > On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Or have a proxy that adds packages that are requested. > > > > When I woke up this morning, I was thinking that it might be interesting > > to

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Or have a proxy that adds packages that are requested. > When I woke up this morning, I was thinking that it might be interesting to > have an apt method that talks directly to reprepro. It's just a vague ide

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Actually attaching the file this time... On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:54:28AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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: > >

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 20:54:28 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joseph Rawson writes: > > On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Joseph Rawson writes: > >> If so then you can configure a post invoke hook in apt that will copy > >> the dpkg status file of the host to the se

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:14:08PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Joseph Rawson [090619 13:23]: > > 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 i

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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 debia

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 07:14:08 Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Actually, I'm quite open to having some depedency handling in reprepro That is interesting. I've been working on the assumption that there would never be any dependency handling in reprepro, as I didn't consider it part of it's function.

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Joseph Rawson writes: >> If so then you can configure a post invoke hook in apt that will copy >> the dpkg status file of the host to the server [as status.$(hostname)] >> and then use those on the server to g

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Joseph Rawson [090619 13:23]: > 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 helpe

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joseph Rawson writes: > > BTW, the subject of this thread is "apt-get wrapper for maintaining > > Partial Mirrors". The solution I'm proposing is "a simple tool for > > maintaining Partial Mirrors" (which could possibly be wrapped by a

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
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 t

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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 > su

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Thursday 18 June 2009 04:47:45 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT writes: > > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: > >> > This can be stated as: if a person > >> > wants to keep a customised set of packages

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
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. > > > Depen

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joseph Rawson writes: > > BTW, the subject of this thread is "apt-get wrapper for maintaining > > Partial Mirrors". The solution I'm proposing is "a simple tool for > > maintaining Partial Mirrors" (which could possibly be wrapped by a

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > BTW, the subject of this thread is "apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial > Mirrors". The solution I'm proposing is "a simple tool for maintaining > Partial Mirrors" (which could possibly be wrapped by apt-get later). > > I think that just pursuing an "apt-get wrapp

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Thursday 18 June 2009 02:46:42 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joseph Rawson writes: > > There is another application that will help with the dependencies. It's > > called germinate, and it will take a short list of packages and a list of > > repositories and build a bunch of different lists of

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Lin PIAT writes: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: >> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: >> > 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 devel

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
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. Depending on what you want to achieve, a caching proxy might be an easy so

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > There is another application that will help with the dependencies. It's > called germinate, and it will take a short list of packages and a list of > repositories and build a bunch of different lists of packages and their > dependencies. Germinate will also determine

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-09 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: > Hi all, > > We all know that there are various distro's that build around Debian. > I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal > distributions can be automated. This can be stated as: if a person > wants to keep a c