Re: ITP: mini-dinstall -- daemon for updating Debian packages in a repository
Colin Walters wrote:
> > I've been using a hackish program to manage my archive, so I'm very
> > interested. It doesn't do quite what my old program does though
> > (~joeyh/bin/package-sync).
>
> On which machine is this ~joeyh?
auric, gluck, anything else I've checked my home directory out into lately.
> > * I need the ability to keep my existing sources.list lines, which are pretty
> > well-known. I will only ever have i386 and all in my repository, so I
> > don't need separate directories. And $(ARCH) is icky. I lump everything
> > into one directory and use:
>
> This is a bit tricky. It would be nice to support a few more layouts
> though. The reason I don't support a single directory-style layout is
> because you can't mix different architecture .debs in there, so I didn't
> really find it useful.
I think I might be willing to bend on this one, but it would be nice.
> * A proper Incoming directory would be nice. I was confused at first
> > about where exactly to upload stuff to and tried putting stuff in the
> > i386/ and all/ directories.
>
> Well, basically each distribution is its own archive. There isn't
> really a pool structure, because to have a pool type thing, you really
> need a database to keep track of it, tools to manage it, and at that
> point you might as well just use the full-blown dinstall.
No, I was just looking for a incoming/ dirctory that I can put stuff
into and it takes the files from, uploading direct to the base directory
of an archive feels strange somehow.
> > * I need the ability to have a hook that runs a program passing it a changes
> > file name once it successfully puts a package into the archive. I use
> > this type of hook to auto-update web pages for debian native packages, and
> > I would like to use it as a way to launch a secondary dput to the main
> > debian archive, since I currently upload everything to my own local archive
> > and also to Incoming.
>
> That's a pretty cool idea. Should be implemented in the latest 0.0.1.0;
> the option is called "post_installation_script".
I hope you can do the pre_installation_target I mentioned on irc too.
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