On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Peter Michaux <petermich...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote: >>> >>> Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what information >>> is used about the package so that dpkg-ftparchive knows with which >>> distribution to associate each package. >> >> The association between versions of binary/source packages and a suite >> is tracked by dak which builds the Packages and Sources files. [There's >> a postgresql database which actually tracks all of this.] > > Thank you, Don. I don't think I want to manage my small repository > with dak. That seems like it would be overkill. > > Another option I saw in the man page for apt-ftparchive is the > FileList option to specify exactly which files are included in each > distribution. I had it working but the idea of maintaining extra lists > of files seems like more work than I'd like and probably error prone. > > I think I'll just keep two pools called "testing" and "stable". Each > pool will feed into the respective distribution. When a package in > testing is verified as ready, I'll move it to stable and regenerate > the Packages and Release files for the distributions. Hopefully it > works out to be as easy as it currently seems it will be.
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