Robert Millan <rmh.debian....@aybabtu.com> writes:
> 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....@aybabtu.com>
>> >
>> > * Package name : vsag
>> > Version : 0.0.1
>> > Upstream Author : Robert Millan <rmh.deb...@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
Why not use reprepro ich is real simple to configure and does all this
and more.
MfG
Goswin
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