Joseph Rawson <umebos...@gmail.com> 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 wrapper" leads to some complications > that could be avoided by creating the "partial mirror tool" first, then > looking at wrapping it later. One complication might be "how do handle > apt-get remove", and another might be "how to handle sid libraries that > disappear from official repository, yet local machines must have them".
Ahh, so maybe I completly misread that part. Do you mean a wrapper around apt-get so that "apt-get install foo" on any client would automatically add "foo" to the list of packages being mirrored on the server? 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 generate the filter for reprepro. I think I still have a script for that somewhere but it is easy enough to rewrite. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org