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Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors



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).

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Thanks:
Joseph Rawson

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