On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:06:23AM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> If you do not mind I can help you and you can help me to improve
> the debarchiver package. I would be happy to include your scripts there.
At the moment I am busy with DAK, but if you want to take over
maintaining my scripts as a si
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented
> > mess that was a total overkill for my purpose (eg. I don't need a
> > database).
>
> That "complicated and undocumented mess" has been runni
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:09:44PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
> Which is inadequate; how do you tell whether the following lines access
> the same
> distribution?
>
> deb http://debian.lemon-computing.com/debian/ stable main contrib
> non-free
> deb http://debian.otago.ac.nz/debian/ stable main
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:03:07PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but
> for the simple reason that this functionality already exists.
>
> The namespace of an apt repository is its URL, and any information
> available in a "Rele
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Joey Hess wrote:
> Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for
> > handling archives instead?
>
> Probably because it's too complicated to be of use unless you're
> managing something on the scale of the debian archive. It
Hi
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:36:58PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
> available at:
>
> http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/>.
Interesting.
> These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive
> with m
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:48 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
>
> > I do not agree with you for different reasons. First of all noone
> > forces
> > people to add private archives to their sources.list. If users do that
> > they should know tha
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 02:09, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 12:03 pm, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
> > I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but
> > for the simple reason that this functionality already exists.
>
> In part; it's not visible to
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 17:26, Brian May wrote:
> When I last looked at mini-dinstall it didn't seem to try to cater for
> many of the tasks required for pools, because it doesn't appear to
> support pools.
>
> eg. with pools you need tools to install packages, maintain multiple
> Packages files fo
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 14:44, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joel Baker wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Note that mini-dinstall can generate "old-style" archives too. That's
> what I use f
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 12:03 pm, Scott James Remnant wrote:
I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but
for the simple reason that this functionality already exists.
In part; it's not visible to the user, and it's not possible for a
package to specify that it de
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented
> mess that was a total overkill for my purpose (eg. I don't need a
> database).
That "complicated and undocumented mess" has been running the Debian
archives successfully and without major i
Joel Baker wrote:
> 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.
Note that mini-dinstall can generate "old-style" archives too. That's
what I use for all my repositories.
archive_style = flat
--
see shy
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for
> handling archives instead?
Probably because it's too complicated to be of use unless you're
managing something on the scale of the debian archive. It's much easier
to install mini-dinstall and make
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:42:15PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > d-arch-builder?? (debian-archive-builder)
>
> Sounds good.
I have renamed the bin2 directory to darchbuilder.
(unfortunately Perl objected to the - in the directory name).
The new location is now
http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 20:51, Nick Phillips wrote:
> /me wonders whether some concept of namespaces in package names would
> be useful before we make it too easy for world + dog to run large
> repositories of .debs - Ximian was bad enough on its own, last I had to
> recover a system from someone
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:48:30PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> I do not agree with you for different reasons. First of all noone forces
> people to add private archives to their sources.list. If users do that
> they should know that things can break more easily. Sometimes private
> archi
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:48 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
I do not agree with you for different reasons. First of all noone
forces
people to add private archives to their sources.list. If users do that
they should know that things can break more easily. Sometimes private
archive are
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:19:52PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Have you ever looked at katie, jenna and the other girls? They can do
> magic, 99 % of which unneeded in the case of simple private archives.
I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented mess
that was a total overki
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:03:44PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
> 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
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 almos
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Phillips wrote:
>
> /me wonders whether some concept of namespaces in package names would
> be useful before we make it too easy for world + dog to run large
> repositories of .debs - Ximian was bad enough on its own, last I had to
> recover a system from someone using it.
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:38:26 +0100 (CET), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for
> >handling archives instead?
>
> Have you ever looked at katie, jenna and the other girls? They can do
> magic, 99 % of which unneeded
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 06:41 am, Joel Baker wrote:
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
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:38:26 +0100 (CET), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for
>handling archives instead?
Have you ever looked at katie, jenna and the other girls? They can do
magic, 99 % of which unneeded in the case
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 pa
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, 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
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
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:21:17AM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> Do you have some documentation done somewhere? I wasn't able to find the
> README file.
Sorry about that. It is possible that the webserver has somehow
been configured not to display README files.
For now I have renamed it
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Brian May wrote:
> I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
> available at:
>
> http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/>.
>
> These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive
> with multiple distributions, architectures, e
I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools,
available at:
http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/>.
These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive
with multiple distributions, architectures, etc. No database is
required. See
http://www.micr
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