On Friday 19 June 2009 20:54:28 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 06:23:08AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > On Friday 19 June 2009 05:09:31 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > > > would be much more interested in making a tool that would make it > > > > easier to manage local/partial debian mirrors (i.e. one that helped > > > > resolve the dependencies), rather than have an apt-get wrapper. I > > > > also think that once such a tool is made, it would make it easier to > > > > build an apt-get wrapper that works with it. I don't think that > > > > viewing the problem with an "apt-get wrapper" solution is the best > > > > way to approach it, but I do think that it would be valuable once the > > > > underlying problems are solved. > > > > > > And reprepro does not fit the bill because? > > > > It fits part of the bill, as it's an excellent tool for maintaining a > > repository, but it doesn't resolve dependencies (nor should it). > > Just in case it might help, here's a script we used internally (at the > Sarge time) to maintain a dummy repository that would help us eventually > resolve an original list of packages to a complete list of packages we > ask a reprepro source to update. > Did you forget to attach it? :) > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir@jabber.org | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > tzafrir@cohens.org.il | | best > ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson
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