Re: debian.kernel.net archive for security updates & other stuff

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:37:36PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> Unified Repository for Proposed Kernel Security Updates
> -------------------------------------------------------
> I've created a unified archive for our proposed security updates for
> sarge.  Hopefully this will make it easier for users to test/use these
> builds, as well as provide a single location for the security team to
> pick them up.
> 
> This archive will soon be available at:
>   deb http://kernel.debian.net/debian sarge/updates main
> 
> But until alioth has the alias configured, use kernel.alioth.debian.org
> instead.  The debian.net url should give us more flexibility should we
> decide to relocate the archive at some point.
> 
> Please let me know soon if there's anything you'd like to see changed.
> I'd like to announce this more broadly RSN.  (For instance, should the
> dist be sarge/updates?  Maybe sarge-proposed-updates or sarge-security?)
> 
> Managing the Archive
> --------------------
> I've created a simple archive management system to hopefully make it
> easy/efficient to manage.  It sits in the root of the archive tree:
> alioth.debian.org:/org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/kernel/htdocs/debian
> 
> The contents of each dist is maintained in a 'pkglist' file.
> (sarge/updates is the only dist at the moment).  pkglist files just
> contain a list of .changes files to include.  A toplevel Makefile
> processes these files, creates the dists/ hierarchy, and finally runs
> apt-ftparchive generate.
> 
> This should make it easy to quickly add dists and share packages between
> them.  Say, sarge-proposed-updates or sarge-backports.  (Not that we
> shouldn't use backports.org or volatile where appropriate, of course).
> We could store these pkglists in svn at some point, should we want
> revision control on the archive.

Thanks Dann, that is awsome. I'm currently trying to get 2.6.8 and 
2.4.27 up to date again. Once thats done I'll make a sarge2 upload
source, i386 and powerpc upload. We can take other architectues from 
there.

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Horms