apt-move incompatible with non-debian repository structures

[Luis M]

I thought apt-move was deprecated code. apt-move has many more flaws
than this. The easiest way to get a nice, pool-based repository that
supports multiple architectures on debian is using reprepro.

now, reprepro command line interface is meant to be use from a front
end (really) and not by mere mortals typing things. For this reason i
wrote a nice script called simply "repository" [1].

with my script you can setup your environment as follows:

/home/Shared/debian
/home/Shared/debian/incoming
/home/Shared/debian/conf/distributions

Where /home/Shared/debian will hold your repository and
/home/Shared/debian/pool will have all your packages.

The distributions files has entries like:
Origin: Kiskeyix
Label: Debian-All
Suite: debian-stable
Codename: stable
Version: 3.1
Architectures: i386 powerpc all source
Components: main non-free contrib
Description: Debian stable + non-free + contrib (some backported)
Update: debian security
#SignWith: yes

Origin: Kiskeyix
Label: Ubuntu-New
Suite: ubuntu-unstable
Codename: dapper
Version: 6.04
Architectures: i386 powerpc all source
Components: main multiverse restricted universe
UDebComponents: main multiverse restricted universe
Description: Ubuntu Dapper plus plus (and backported)
Update: ubuntu security
#SignWith: yes

Now, in order to add packages to the distribution you want, you simply
put the source files in /home/Shared/debian/incoming (.dsc,
.orig.tar..., .deb's for that package...) and run:

repository add

If you want to keep your own mirror of the official ubuntu/debian
packages, then you create $codename directories inside incoming:
/home/Shared/debian/incoming/dapper
/home/Shared/debian/incomng/unstable

and copy your .deb files into them, then add the files using the same command:

repository add


From time to time you might need to tidy things a bit, and you can simple do:

repository remove

Which will remove all unreference packages from your repo. (man reprepro).

If you need to remove only a few packages, then you can do:

repository remove package1 package2 ... packageN

and they will be removed from their respective $codename
repositories.... automagically ;-)

I hope that helps.

[1] http://lems.kiskeyix.org/toolbox/?f=repository

On 4/19/06, John Schofield <schoflist at dakim.com> wrote:
> Package: apt-move
> Version: 4.2.24-1.1ubuntu1
> Severity: important
>
>
> apt-move has the Debian main/restricted/non-us/etc. sections of the
> repository hard-coded into it.
>
> When using apt-move to duplicate an Ubuntu repository, only the main and
> restricted components are duplicated. Files from universe or multiverse
> are ignored.
>
> My expectation is that the components to be used/ignored would be a
> configurable option, rather than hard-coded in the program itself.



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