On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:41:31AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: OOooh! Got a package I can play with?
-- Paul > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-10 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : package-pool-helper > Version : 0.9 > Upstream Author : Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > * URL : not yet available > * License : GPL > Description : Simple scripts to manage a local package pool > > This package contains scripts to help local site administrators to > manage their own package pools which might contain fixed, patched, > backported or new packages complementing a Debian distribution. > > mkdists scans a directory tree for files named 00distributions that > contains information about packages and which distribution they will > go into. The information found in 00distributions will then be processed > into a package list file that is used by apt-ftparchive to build > Packages.gz files for all distributions that have packages configured. > A Release file that contains md5sums of the packages will be created > as well. > > editdistlist scans the local directory for package files that are not > yet present in 00distributions, adds them to 00distributions's end and > fires up an editor allowing the user to place the new package files > into a distribution. > > The scripts included in this package don't target sophisticated > archive management like katie. They are sufficient to manage a local > pool of packages that a site with a few dozen of > differently-configured machines needs for efficient systems > administration. Putting the package-distribution relationship files in > the same directory than the package files makes distribution > management easy and fast. > > Greetings > Marc > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux darren 2.4.21-coreserver #1 SMP Fri Jun 20 15:44:17 UTC 2003 > i686 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >