Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-09-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:51:27 -0400, "Christopher W. Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A poor man's version would be: "man dpkg-scanpackages" apt-ftparchive does a better job than dpkg-scanpackages. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-09-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:51:27 -0400, "Christopher W. Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A poor man's version would be: "man dpkg-scanpackages" apt-ftparchive does a better job than dpkg-scanpackages. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-21 Thread Joel Baker
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:40:27PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Eric Winger (2003-08-20 16:05:33 -0700) : > > > So, two questions: > > > > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. > > It's the best way I've found. > > > * I

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Winger
Christopher W. Curtis wrote: A quick google for "apt repository howto", besides pulling up a surprising number of links about RPMs, also brings up these two: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html Thanks to everyone for their responses. This link has prove

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-21 Thread Joel Baker
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:40:27PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Eric Winger (2003-08-20 16:05:33 -0700) : > > > So, two questions: > > > > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. > > It's the best way I've found. > > > * I

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Winger
Christopher W. Curtis wrote: A quick google for "apt repository howto", besides pulling up a surprising number of links about RPMs, also brings up these two: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html Thanks to everyone for their responses. This link has proved ver

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-21 Thread Roland Mas
Eric Winger (2003-08-20 16:05:33 -0700) : > So, two questions: > > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. It's the best way I've found. > * If this is the most reasonable way, where is the information on > building/mainta

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-21 Thread Roland Mas
Eric Winger (2003-08-20 16:05:33 -0700) : > So, two questions: > > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. It's the best way I've found. > * If this is the most reasonable way, where is the information on > building/mainta

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, two questions: > > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. Its realy easy for small repositories (say <100 packages so this applies to you) but you need proper management script

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, two questions: > > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. Its realy easy for small repositories (say <100 packages so this applies to you) but you need proper management script

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:05:33PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. It seems a reasonable way to have some packages that are specific for your situation. > * If this is the most reasonable

creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Neil Roeth
On Aug 20, Eric Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Continuing our investigation into debian packages, we'd like to be able > to create our own internal archive/repository for just our packages. > Then change our sources.list file to point at that and be able to use > the apt-get

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Christopher W. Curtis
On 08/20/03 19:05, Eric Winger wrote: > Continuing our investigation into debian packages, we'd like to be able > to create our own internal archive/repository for just our packages. ... > I don't see much information on what an archive is, how one > creates/administers one, how one puts packages

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Joe Nahmias
Eric Winger wrote: > So, two questions: > > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. Yes. > * If this is the most reasonable way, where is the information on > building/maintaining your own archive. You need to create a rep

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:05:33PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. It seems a reasonable way to have some packages that are specific for your situation. > * If this is the most reasonable

creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Neil Roeth
On Aug 20, Eric Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Continuing our investigation into debian packages, we'd like to be able > to create our own internal archive/repository for just our packages. > Then change our sources.list file to point at that and be able to use > the apt-get

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Christopher W. Curtis
On 08/20/03 19:05, Eric Winger wrote: > Continuing our investigation into debian packages, we'd like to be able > to create our own internal archive/repository for just our packages. ... > I don't see much information on what an archive is, how one > creates/administers one, how one puts packages

Re: creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Joe Nahmias
Eric Winger wrote: > So, two questions: > > * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a > seperate archive? Or is there a better way. Yes. > * If this is the most reasonable way, where is the information on > building/maintaining your own archive. You need to create a rep

creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Eric Winger
Hi! Continuing our investigation into debian packages, we'd like to be able to create our own internal archive/repository for just our packages. Then change our sources.list file to point at that and be able to use the apt-get engines to update our code on any machine at any of our facilities

creating your own debian package repository

2003-08-20 Thread Eric Winger
Hi! Continuing our investigation into debian packages, we'd like to be able to create our own internal archive/repository for just our packages. Then change our sources.list file to point at that and be able to use the apt-get engines to update our code on any machine at any of our facilities.