Re: pool to dists assocation?
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Peter Michaux <petermichaux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote:
>>>
>>> Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what information
>>> is used about the package so that dpkg-ftparchive knows with which
>>> distribution to associate each package.
>>
>> The association between versions of binary/source packages and a suite
>> is tracked by dak which builds the Packages and Sources files. [There's
>> a postgresql database which actually tracks all of this.]
>
> Thank you, Don. I don't think I want to manage my small repository
> with dak. That seems like it would be overkill.
>
> Another option I saw in the man page for apt-ftparchive is the
> FileList option to specify exactly which files are included in each
> distribution. I had it working but the idea of maintaining extra lists
> of files seems like more work than I'd like and probably error prone.
>
> I think I'll just keep two pools called "testing" and "stable". Each
> pool will feed into the respective distribution. When a package in
> testing is verified as ready, I'll move it to stable and regenerate
> the Packages and Release files for the distributions. Hopefully it
> works out to be as easy as it currently seems it will be.
Please ignore my previous email in this thread. I didn't read your
original email carefully enough... Sorry.
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