Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:44:38AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:18:51 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Robert Millan <rmh.debian.bts@aybabtu.com>
> >
> > * Package name : vsag
> > Version : 0.0.1
> > Upstream Author : Robert Millan <rmh.debian@aybabtu.com>
> > * URL : not yet released
> > * License : GPL
> > Programming Lang: bash, make
> > Description : Very Simple Archive Generator
> >
> > Vsag is a very simple program aimed at generating Debian archives out of
> > a directory filled with packages.
> > .
> > It doesn't track state or manage the directory itself in any way. Its
> > purpose is to provide a very simple method to generate the files normally
> > provided by a Debian archive so that it can be used by programs like apt
> > or debootstrap.
>
> Why not improve dpkg-scanpackages instead? What is there missing that
> you'd need?
Not at all! dpkg-scanpackages works fine, in fact Vsag uses it to generate
Packages files. But it does also a few other things:
- Generates compressed Packages.{gz,bz2}.
- Generates Release indexes.
- Automated gpg signatures.
- DAK-like dists/ directory structure (with per-architecture separation)
- etc
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Robert Millan
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