On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 04:55:53PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:59:04 +0100, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
> wrote:
> >* Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> [2004-07-17 10:13]:
> >> The archive software is complex and underdocumented. You need help
> >> to get into it. And that help is not available, and so patches
> >> produced would be sub-standard.
> >
> >Have you actually tried?
>
> I tried understanding katie once, but after finding out that it uses
> the same tools I would do manually (i think it was dpkg-scanpackages
> at that time), I stopped my efforts and wrote my own
> package-pool-helper. Which is - btw - not published since Debian
> indicated desinterest for "one more Package files generator" which had
> at that time unique features.
>
> Greetings
> Marc, reminded to take another look at debpool soon
Oddly enough, debpool is (at least, last I checked) the thing running the
amd64 archive on alioth. Or at least, I got a lot of very useful feedback
on the early experimental versions from folks using it for that. Need to
beat on the rest of life until I have some time to get it up to 0.2.0 in
the near future, grrrf.
Granted, the design decisions for debpool were aimed *entirely* at making
it useable by porters on new platforms, rather than making it good at
handling the massive and complex set of things that Katie has to track at
this point, but it seems to do well enough as far as it goes to make the
folks it was written for (reasonably) satisfied.
Suggestions, bugs, and patches still welcome, as always. :)
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