Colin Walters wrote: > > I've been using a hackish program to manage my archive, so I'm very > > interested. It doesn't do quite what my old program does though > > (~joeyh/bin/package-sync). > > On which machine is this ~joeyh?
auric, gluck, anything else I've checked my home directory out into lately. > > * I need the ability to keep my existing sources.list lines, which are > > pretty > > well-known. I will only ever have i386 and all in my repository, so I > > don't need separate directories. And $(ARCH) is icky. I lump everything > > into one directory and use: > > This is a bit tricky. It would be nice to support a few more layouts > though. The reason I don't support a single directory-style layout is > because you can't mix different architecture .debs in there, so I didn't > really find it useful. I think I might be willing to bend on this one, but it would be nice. > * A proper Incoming directory would be nice. I was confused at first > > about where exactly to upload stuff to and tried putting stuff in the > > i386/ and all/ directories. > > Well, basically each distribution is its own archive. There isn't > really a pool structure, because to have a pool type thing, you really > need a database to keep track of it, tools to manage it, and at that > point you might as well just use the full-blown dinstall. No, I was just looking for a incoming/ dirctory that I can put stuff into and it takes the files from, uploading direct to the base directory of an archive feels strange somehow. > > * I need the ability to have a hook that runs a program passing it a changes > > file name once it successfully puts a package into the archive. I use > > this type of hook to auto-update web pages for debian native packages, and > > I would like to use it as a way to launch a secondary dput to the main > > debian archive, since I currently upload everything to my own local > > archive > > and also to Incoming. > > That's a pretty cool idea. Should be implemented in the latest 0.0.1.0; > the option is called "post_installation_script". I hope you can do the pre_installation_target I mentioned on irc too. -- see shy jo
