Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > = Flat Repository Format = > > A flat repository does not use the {{{dists}}} hierarchy of directories, > and instead places meta index and indices directly into the archive root > (or some part below it) In sources.list syntax, a flat

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-19 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 07:38:59AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > What's the opinion about the flat repository format, where you > > just have one directory with Release, Packages, Sources, and > > friends and no sub-directories? > > >

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Julian Andres Klode writes: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> FWIW >> >> posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat >> >> Thanks >> >> Michal > > I have now documented the Contents indices and the diffs > as well, mostly (sans the exact form

Bug#663174: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > How about integrating it with the Policy's chapter 5 (thus enlarging its > scope) instead of having it as a separate document ? That would help to > underline when a field is used in the same way or differently as in the > package control data files. The primary reason

Bug#663174: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:49:10PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode a écrit : > > In a few months, I'd like to rework this in DocBook form, and submit it to > debian-policy for inclusion into official Policy, as a sub-policy like > copyright-format. Dear Julian and everybody, thank you for this docume

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > What's the opinion about the flat repository format, where you > just have one directory with Release, Packages, Sources, and > friends and no sub-directories? > > Should they be documented as well then? We would then have two > kind o

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 08:12:16PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > The formatting is not consistent but that will have to be changed for > docbook anyway. Yes, and it will also be more readable then, than the current wiki version. > > Also would need some proof-reading. If nothing else somebody

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from Julian Andres Klode's message of Fri May 18 18:49:10 +0200 2012: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > FWIW > > > > posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat > > > > Thanks > > > > Michal > > I have now documented the Contents ind

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:45:00PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Julian Andres Klode [2012-05-18 13:38 +0200]: > > > We currently have three independent implementations of the repository > > format in the archive: APT, cupt, smartpm. > > I think reprepro is another? Of course, I was just only talk

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Wookey
+++ Julian Andres Klode [2012-05-18 13:38 +0200]: > We currently have three independent implementations of the repository > format in the archive: APT, cupt, smartpm. I think reprepro is another? /usr/share/doc/reprepro/manual.html contains a 'repository basics' section which includes useful la

Bug#663174: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > FWIW > > posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat What's the opinion about the flat repository format, where you just have one directory with Release, Packages, Sources, and friends and no sub-directories? Shou

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > FWIW > > posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat > > Thanks > > Michal I have now documented the Contents indices and the diffs as well, mostly (sans the exact format we use for the patches), and Translation

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:34:29PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Julian Andres Klode [120518 14:43]: > > A working draft could be something like the following. It mostly > > describes the current format for Release, Packages, and Sources > > files. It's thus missing Contents and Translations,

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Julian Andres Klode [120518 14:43]: > A working draft could be something like the following. It mostly > describes the current format for Release, Packages, and Sources > files. It's thus missing Contents and Translations, pdiffs, and > stuff, but it's a beginning. > > It specifies different req

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
FWIW posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 01:38:40PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > I do not think that APT is responsible for the repository format. The > repository format is defined by ftpmaster, not by APT. APT has to my > knowledge not defined anything new, but only implemented changes to > the repository

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 01:38:40PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:02:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > CC'ing the apt list de...@lists.debian.org. > > > > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: AP

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:02:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > CC'ing the apt list de...@lists.debian.org. > > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT > repository format is not documented"): > > Michal Suchanek writes: > >

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Ian Jackson
CC'ing the apt list de...@lists.debian.org. Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented"): > Michal Suchanek writes: > > [ discussions regarding documenting the apt repository format ] > > I woul

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michal Suchanek writes: > Excerpts from Ian Jackson's message of Thu May 17 14:53:30 +0200 2012: >> Michal Suchanek writes ("Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is >> not documented"): >> > Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of Wed

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from David Kalnischkies's message of Thu May 17 18:21:59 +0200 2012: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Michal Suchanek > wrote: > > Excerpts from Ian Jackson's message of Thu May 17 14:53:30 +0200 2012: > >> Michal Suchanek writes ("Re: Bug#67150

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Excerpts from Ian Jackson's message of Thu May 17 14:53:30 +0200 2012: >> Michal Suchanek writes ("Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is >> not documented"): >> > Excerpts from Filipus Kl

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello, On 2012-05-17 13:48, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Admittedly there is no text in social contract about using > Debian-proprietary formats. And a format only defined by "apt can read > that" is definitely Debian-proprietary there is no better term for that. > > I'd say it's slightly discriminat

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from Ian Jackson's message of Thu May 17 14:53:30 +0200 2012: > Michal Suchanek writes ("Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is > not documented"): > > Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of Wed May 16 18:44:21 +0200 2012: > > >

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Michal Suchanek writes ("Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented"): > Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of Wed May 16 18:44:21 +0200 2012: > > Could you clarify how this differs from #481129? > > It's 4 years later. > > S

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of Wed May 16 18:44:21 +0200 2012: > Could you clarify how this differs from #481129? It's 4 years later. Sorry, forgot that I filed the bug already. It's quite some time. Given there is no feedback in 4 years I guess it is futile reporting this. Admitte

Bug#663174: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-16 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Could you clarify how this differs from #481129? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think debian-policy is the right repository for this.  I think it would > make the most sense to maintain this via a looser update method than the > normal Policy process and to instead just apply any update that ftp-master > says is in place

Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12836 March 1977, David Kalnischkies wrote: > I would personal tend toward ftp-master to be the authority with reference > implementation being dak, but they have no public mailinglist and dak isn't > used by all derivatives… debian-dak@lists.d.o On 12836 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: > I

Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-04 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Vie 04 May 2012 18:13:01 Russ Allbery escribió: [big snip] I think Russ' proposal is quite a nice solution. Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer

Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
David Kalnischkies writes: > Completely ignoring the mail itself and just referring to the title > (beside ignoring even the first word in that): "repository format is > not documented" is a valid bug - and it should be documented for the > benefit of people who write the various tools used to g

Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-04 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > This, however, does not apply the apt-ftparchive. It is supposed to > create the required files fully automatically. With the provided > documentation I was able to make it do exactly nothing, fully > automatically. For the record: This was

Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 04 May 2012 18:49:34 +0200 Michal Suchanek wrote: > Package: general > Severity: important > > I wanted to create a repository of my own packages so that I can use the > standard Debian tools to install these packages and resolve any > dependencies automatically. Use better tools - repr

Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: general Severity: important Hello, I wanted to create a repository of my own packages so that I can use the standard Debian tools to install these packages and resolve any dependencies automatically. However, there is no documentation of the format of these repositories. There are mult