Tips for setting up own repos?

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>]

Well with 4.0/etch coming out, and the fact that I'm also maintaining, 
internally, repositories for Woody, and Sarge, as well as atleast three 
different architectures I'm hitting the wall with the capabilities of 
mini-dinstall.  I'm faced with rolling my own or finding out what others 
use.  My biggest problem right now is apparently mini-dinstall can't 
produce *properly* signed Releases and thus etch basically refuses to use 
the repository.  I control the machines (in general) so can install GPG 
public keys but without a complicated signing script that basically 
regenerates the repository anyway it just doesn't work.

I honestly dont' know of what other tools exist, other than the individual 
pieces that can be strung together to build a mini-dinstall like system 
that better handles etch security and correctly handles multiple archs.

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