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: > > <URL:http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/>.
Interesting. > These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive > with multiple distributions, architectures, etc. No database is > required. See > > <URL:http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/> for a sample. > > If somebody wants to help tidy up this code and package it for Debian, I > will be willing to maintain the Debian package for Debian. 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. The package pool thing is what I miss in debarchiver. I also miss the nice daemon feature from mini-dinstall (which I did not know of until today). I can give you cvs access to my machine or move debarchiver code to cvs.debian.org if you like. > This probably will involve going through the README file and fixing the > things I have labeled "FIXME" (most of these should be simple to > fix, not sure about the bugs in rmfiles yet though). > > If you want to do any work on it, please let me know simply so I can > tell you if I have made any changes (as I do more testing if I find any > bugs I may simply fix them without warning). > > If anyone else is interested, cvs.debian.org might be a good idea, too... > > A name is required (bin2 doesn't suit IMHO!). > > Design note: > > I have tried to make all scripts as simple as possible (except > dpkg-scan* which are hacked versions of the Debian programs). This is something I have been thinking about for some time now... :) > Everything uses dsc.pm in order to read the *.changes file, to ensure > that the programs remain small. What is dsc.pm ? A description reader, you learn something everyday. > dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources have been hacked to take a file > with a list of packages as a parameter. Cool. > dpkg-scanudebs does the same thing as dpkg-scanpackages but for udebs. Cool too. > Ideally the original versions of these packages should support the > functionality required, so these hacked versions wouldn't be required. That sounds like a good thing. Regards, // Ola > -- > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------