Joel Baker wrote:
> DebPool is a pool-based DEB package archiver designed with a goal of
> removing any dependancy on code not shipped as part of the core Debian
> system.
>
> It is capable of all of the following:
> * Tracking multiple distributions (however, it does *not* include
> unstable -> testing promotion scripts).
> * Generating Release files (requires libdigest-{md5,sha1}-perl)
> * Verifying package signatures (requires gnupg).
> * Signing release files (requires Release files and gnupg).
> * Running in single-pass or daemon modes.
>
> DebPool is intended to be a lightweight replacement for the full Debian
> archival scripts, in the tradition of debarchive and mini-dinstall, but
> using a pool layout and avoiding external dependancies.
If you have so many files in the archive that you need a whole hashed
directory tree to hold them (pool, right?), why do external deps matter?
Surely the extra disk space would be negligible.
Sometimes I wish we could have one thing that worked well, instead of 4
that work kinda ok. In this case, I would like to have Release file
generation and package signatures[1], but I also want a flat structure
and would prefer to see these features added to something that already
works.
NIH?
--
see shy jo
[1] With the proviso of course that apt cannot use signed packages yet
-- bug #161680
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