[debexpo-devel] Concept work nearly done

Jonny Lamb jonnylamb at jonnylamb.com
Fri May 23 01:06:07 CEST 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:07:15PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
> What do you mean by "always upload binary but discard *.deb files"? You 
> mean upload both and discard the binary packages?

I mean force users to upload a binary (as ftp-master does), but discard
the *.deb files.

> To get sane and clean packages I think ftp-master should only accept
> source uploads.

Yes, but the buildd problem arises. Anyway, this is ftp-master chat and
not relevant to debexpo! :-)

> No idea what is the best way. So... make it configurable?

Why not? There's no point in making any decisions now. I'll just set it
configurable and let users choose. Job done.

> > [Yeah, that's right, I've been reading the dak source and its docs! :-)]
> 
> You are sick. :)

I have to admit, dak is good at what it does. I set it up here and it's
pretty good, but it is just overkill for most people.

> package_sources:
> - rename to source_packages

Done.

> package_binary:
> - rename to binary_packages
> - arch: perhaps make it a string? or you would have to hardcode the
>   architecture names. and architectures in Debian tend to change from
>   release to release
> - same for "section" and "component"

Done.

Next revision:

    http://jdl.ducs.org.uk/misc/debexpo-db-4.png

Anything else or is this in stone yet?

Thanks,

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Jonny Lamb, UK                                   jonnylamb at jonnylamb.com
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