Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : dak > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
