Bug#284370: ITP: dak -- dak - Debian Archive Maintenance Scripts
Joerg Jaspert <joerg@ganneff.de> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : dak
> Version : 1.0
> Upstream Author : James Troup <james@nocrew.org> and a few others
> * URL or Web page : http://cvs.debian.org/dak/?cvsroot=dak
> * License : GPL
> Description: Debian's archive maintenance scripts
> This is a collection of archive maintenance scripts used by the
> Debian project.
Finaly. I looked at DAK a few times and always gave up because I
couldn't make head or tails out of the millions of overlapping partly
identical options.
> You don't want to use this if you only have a few hundred packages
> to maintain. Look at mini-dinstall or debarchiver or maybe even
> apt-ftparchive for this.
Mirrorer (alioth project) is another one worth looking at.
> This is for a big archive, but there it is the best you can get.
>
> You need a running postgresql, but as this can be on some other
> host its only a Suggests - install package postgresql if you want
> it local.
>
> The package is still not finished (only about 2 weeks used for it at
> the moment), but its in a good enough state now to give it away for
> tests. At the moment I need some small fixes to the default setup,
> and I want to include another small script for user-handling. But it
> works nearly out of the box now, just a few steps that cant be
> automated (or for which I havent found the time/fun to automate
> them). At the moment its already running here and doing its job as
> it should, so it works at least for me. But I would like feedback
> from others before I upload it into the Archive.
You should add -W to CXXFLAGS and check the lintian errors and
warnings. I guess the multiple missing manpages can't be fixed that
easily but the rest looks trivial.
> You can find it at http://ganneff.de/dak/pool/main/d/dak/ or use
> http://ganneff.de/dak/ for your sources.list as you would with a
> "normal" debian mirror, its the same structure, its running with
> dak. Well, that /dak/* is a bit messy at the moment, as I included
> more than I need in my config, but hey, its for my tests. :)
deb http://ganneff.de/dak unstable main
deb-src http://ganneff.de/dak unstable main
No sid on your server. :)
> --
> bye Joerg
> Das kannst du vielleicht mir erzaehlen, aber nicht jemanden, der Ahnung hat.
MfG
Goswin
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