Re: PROPOSAL to sarge+1 - Split main in sub-repositories

[Daniel Ruoso <daniel@ruoso.com>]

Em Sex, 2004-08-20 às 18:47, Otavio Salvador escreveu:
> dr> Yes, but this would require wider changes, while the proposal I made
> dr> will only require changes in the ftp-master scripts (besides a
> dr> transition plan to update the sources.list of everybody), not in apt.
> No. Isn't only ftp-master changes. How APT will know about which parts
> should get?

Hmmm... it's just a matter of pointing it too look at somewhere else...
The structure of the repository is very flexible, is just a matter of
using

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main/gnome main/kde main/base

or (inverting the organization)

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid/gnome main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid/kde main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid/base main contrib non-free

ant it would work... This is how I'm doing with my reduced packages file
in the local mirror...

> This approch will be mostly like what Progeny is currently doing in
> Componitized Linux.
> One package file for gnome, other for kde, other for base, and so on.

Yes (loosely like), because there is still only one debian, I'm just
giving the user the option to see the packages separated.

I mean, this will not allow someone to take base from stable and gnome
from unstable.

daniel