dpkg-scanpackages (and other kinfolk)

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On vr, 2005-10-28 at 10:32 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On 10/27/05, Hodgins Family <ehodgins at telusplanet.net> wrote:
> > Good afternoon!
> >
> > For a while now, whenever someone asks how to set up an offline repository,
> > I (and lots of other folks) have been suggesting a method that involves the
> > use of dpkg-scanpackages. I'm just now getting around to actually installing
> > Breezy (wanted to wait a bit) and lo and behold the dpkg-scanpackages wasn't
> > on any of my systems.
> 
> I wouldn't use such low level tools like dpkg-scanpackages or
> apt-ftparchive if I hadn't another choice. Better checkout tools like
> debarchiver, mini-dinstall, reprepro or debpool.

Actually, I am working on a simple yet elegant tool for simple pool
based archives, none of the available tools really suited my needs (dak
is way too complex for such a thing, the others all have issues I don't
like or missed functionality I wanted. It is now generating the
repository info of seveas.ubuntulinux.nl based on a pool structure and
some manual meta information. It's written in python and supports
signing of Release files :)

-- 
Dennis K.
  - Linux for human beings: http://www.ubuntulinux.org
  - Linux voor normale mensen: http://www.ubuntulinux.nl
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