Hi folks, I thought i'd ask a technical question here to give us a bit of relief from the leadership structure and all that. :-)
I have previously maintained my own software repository for my Debian systems, but it fell into disuse. When i came back to re-visit the question, i found that the ballgame had changed, and my scripts to maintain my site (they used dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources) don't work any more. I found this page which talks about tools to create my own repository: <http://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository>. That page doesn't seem to nominate a clear winner, and lots of the products seem to be poorly documented or abandoned. Here are the factors in my repository creation equation: 1. I need to support Debian & Ubuntu, both i386 & amd64 (but preferably all architectures) with one repository and one build process. 2. Most of my packages are small and architecture-independent (perl scripts, Java programs, and the like), but i don't want to be limited to this. 3. I want to run the repository on my own LAN to provide maximum speed and availability to my servers - this rules out using PPA. 4. I want to use a product that is under active development and/or use by Debian and/or Ubuntu developers - this means it should be available in main or universe. 5. I'd prefer to maintain as few repository management files as possible. The archive will not get big and complex, so it's OK to maintain some by hand, but i'd rather not. 6. I want to keep all older versions of my packages online. (My old scripts used to complain every time i uploaded a new version because there were already 27 existing versions in the repository.) 7. I'd prefer to find something that is reasonably well-documented, because asking Debian developers for help is like extracting blood from a stone (just try #debian on IRC sometime if you don't believe me), and Ubuntu folks tend to look at you all weird-like when you don't want to do everything through launchpad & PPA. Is this a reasonable list? Is there a product that fits the bill? Melissa suggested Falcon on IRC earlier, but it fails #4; "quail" suggested debmirror, but it seems to be just for mirroring the main repositories, not creating your own. Most of the products on the page in the Debian wiki seem to fail on #4, #5, or #7. It almost seems as if development of these tools has splintered beyond hope of consolidation. Thanks in advance, Paul
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