Bug#204969: ITP: package-pool-helper -- Simple scripts to manage a local package pool
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:41:31AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
OOooh! Got a package I can play with?
--
Paul
> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-10
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : package-pool-helper
> Version : 0.9
> Upstream Author : Marc Haber (mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de)
> * URL : not yet available
> * License : GPL
> Description : Simple scripts to manage a local package pool
>
> This package contains scripts to help local site administrators to
> manage their own package pools which might contain fixed, patched,
> backported or new packages complementing a Debian distribution.
>
> mkdists scans a directory tree for files named 00distributions that
> contains information about packages and which distribution they will
> go into. The information found in 00distributions will then be processed
> into a package list file that is used by apt-ftparchive to build
> Packages.gz files for all distributions that have packages configured.
> A Release file that contains md5sums of the packages will be created
> as well.
>
> editdistlist scans the local directory for package files that are not
> yet present in 00distributions, adds them to 00distributions's end and
> fires up an editor allowing the user to place the new package files
> into a distribution.
>
> The scripts included in this package don't target sophisticated
> archive management like katie. They are sufficient to manage a local
> pool of packages that a site with a few dozen of
> differently-configured machines needs for efficient systems
> administration. Putting the package-distribution relationship files in
> the same directory than the package files makes distribution
> management easy and fast.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux darren 2.4.21-coreserver #1 SMP Fri Jun 20 15:44:17 UTC 2003 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
>
>
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