Re: PROPOSAL - REFORMULATED - Create alternative Packages files for each section
Le Thursday 26 August 2004 à 20:11:02, Daniel Ruoso a écrit:
> Waiting for your comments,
You will not get any support from ftp-admin unless you have a working
and tested solution. It is useless to discuss about it without showing
the code and the results.
So the question is: why don't you do it yourself? Why don't you provide
alternate Packages files?
The main problem is that you can't (AFAIK) tell apt-get to fetch the
Packages files from "deb http://partial.packages.foobar/debian stable main"
and get the .deb packages from another server like
http://ftp.debian.org/debian (to avoid hosting the .debs yourself).
What I propose you to do:
- patch apt to get the Packages files and the .deb files from two
different locations.
Don't expect support from the apt maintainers, but you can ask.
This will not bring new security problems since the Packages file
contains the MD5sum of the package you will get from another location.
Any "desynchronisation" will be detected.
- provide the apt patch and built package so that volunteers can use
your modified version
- build your alternative Packages the way you want. You can experiment
many different solutions
- other people can also propose other alternative Packages with other
constraints in mind
- provide a tool to configure /etc/apt/sources.list with the different
alternative Packages so users can easily select what Packages they
want to use
- get feedback and results to demonstrate this is (or not) usefull.
Advantages:
- no need to get support/help/work from the ftp-admin team (they have
better things to do right now)
- anybody can propose alternative Packages and compare solutions
- you stop wasting time discussing and you actually do the job
If you want something done in Debian you have to do it yourself first.
Regards,
--
Dr. Ludovic Rousseau Ludovic.Rousseau@free.fr
-- Normaliser Unix c'est comme pasteuriser le camembert, L.R. --
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