ext Jeremiah Foster <jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com> writes: > One huge issue with the repository is the tool used on the backend: > apt-ftparchiver. This tool cannot automatically remove debs and source > packages, causing huge disk bloat (some packages have four or five versions > sitting on the repos.)
I think apt-ftparchive is not supposed to do this, it only creates the indices. Or in other words, it does not install files into the repo, so why should it remove them? > I have tried to fix this by installing a set up for reprepro - a state of the > art repository management system. Reprepro is certainly nice, I had some good experience with it in the past. I hear it can generate .pdiffs now etc. > This work has been largely ignored by the Nokia team running the > repos, much to my frustration. Yes, Nokia is good at that. ;-) > The danger is of creating a fork of the APT process. Using upstream > tools would probably be wise - your work would help everyone. Yes, I will be careful. The changes will be source compatible, minimal, and hopefully well isolated. If you are interested, please check out the debexec.patch. And we are only in this for the short run, MeeGo will kick this all into the bucket anyway. > Then we should remove the bars and locks. Tearing down the whole house > and going back up the trees would be overreacting quite a bit, no? > > You'll need to allow the community to have more say on how the server > infrastructure is run. Currently you need an NDA, proprietary tools > are used, and access is strictly limited. This is the opposite of open > source. Sounds bad indeed. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
