Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-25 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Sunday 21 June 2009 03:33:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: snip The Release could be signed using an rsign method with the machine(s) that manage the repository, or it could be done locally on the server using gpg-agent, or an unencrypted private key, depending on how the administrator

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 21 June 2009 03:33:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: snip The Release could be signed using an rsign method with the machine(s) that manage the repository, or it could be done locally on the server using gpg-agent, or an unencrypted private

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 20 June 2009 03:16:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: But now you made me think about this too. So here is what I think: - My bandwidth at home is fast enough to fetch packages directly. No need to mirror at all. - I don't want to

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Or have a proxy that adds packages that are requested. When I woke up this morning, I was thinking that it might be interesting to have an apt method that talks directly to reprepro. It's

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-20 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Saturday 20 June 2009 03:16:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Or have a proxy that adds packages that are requested. When I woke up this morning, I was thinking that it might be

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: 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

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Thursday 18 June 2009 03:17:13 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal distributions can be automated. lazy-way

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Thursday 18 June 2009 04:47:45 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: This can be stated as: if a person wants to keep a customised set of

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: would be much more interested in making a tool that would make it easier to manage local/partial debian mirrors (i.e. one that helped resolve the dependencies), rather than have an apt-get wrapper. I also think that once such

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 05:09:31 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: would be much more interested in making a tool that would make it easier to manage local/partial debian mirrors (i.e. one that helped resolve the dependencies), rather than

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: 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

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com [090619 13:23]: On Friday 19 June 2009 05:09:31 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: would be much more interested in making a tool that would make it easier to manage local/partial debian mirrors (i.e. one

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: 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

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 07:14:08 Bernhard R. Link wrote: Actually, I'm quite open to having some depedency handling in reprepro That is interesting. I've been working on the assumption that there would never be any dependency handling in reprepro, as I didn't consider it part of it's function.

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 06:23:08AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Friday 19 June 2009 05:09:31 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: would be much more interested in making a tool that would make it easier to manage local/partial debian

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:14:08PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com [090619 13:23]: On Friday 19 June 2009 05:09:31 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: would be much more interested in making a tool that

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: If so then you can configure a post invoke hook in apt that will copy the dpkg status

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Friday 19 June 2009 20:54:28 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 06:23:08AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Friday 19 June 2009 05:09:31 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: would be much more interested in making a tool that

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Actually attaching the file this time... On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:54:28AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 06:23:08AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Friday 19 June 2009 05:09:31 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote:

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: There is another application that will help with the dependencies. It's called germinate, and it will take a short list of packages and a list of repositories and build a bunch of different lists of packages and their dependencies. Germinate will

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal distributions can be automated. lazy-way Depending on what you want to achieve, a caching proxy might be an

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: This can be stated as: if a person wants to keep a customised set of packages for usage with the distribution, the tool should be able to

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Joseph Rawson
germinate. Germinate does have an advantage in that it can recursively add the builddeps for a package list, making a list for a partial, self-building mirror. BTW, the subject of this thread is apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors. The solution I'm proposing is a simple tool

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
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

apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-09 Thread sanket agarwal
Hi all, We all know that there are various distro's that build around Debian. I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal distributions can be automated. This can be stated as: if a person wants to keep a customised set of packages for usage with the distribution, the

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-09 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: Hi all, We all know that there are various distro's that build around Debian. I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal distributions can be automated. This can be stated as: if a person wants to keep a