Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors
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.
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