[csw-users] package management

[James Hartley]

Thank you very much for this piece of the puzzle.  I also really
appreciate the perl script that you sent.  It was fun to translate the
german comments with my old college german textbook.  :-)

Thanks again :-)

james

On 10/16/07, Christopher Odenbach <odenbach at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
> shuttlebox schrieb:
> > On 10/13/07, James Hartley <james.hartley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I do have a question or two on the pkg-get utility.   Specifically I
> >> would like some detailed information on setting up a local repository
> >> for some of my own work.  I could not find any details on how to do
> >> this on the web.  Admitedly I have not looked at all the past
> >> archives.  Can one of the experts give me a hand at this or at least
> >> direct me to a more specific howto.
> >
> > How to rsync your own mirror is described on the mirrors page:
> > http://www.blastwave.org/mirrors.php
>
> I understand that you would like to mix packages from blastwave and your
> own ones. We wanted the same thing here. Unfortunately pkg-get does not
> support multiple repositories (like e.g. apt-get from debian).
>
> To get around this, we set up a local blastwave mirror, another
> directory containing our own packages, and then a directory containing
> symbolic links to the blastwave packages and our local packages.
>
> We have a script running every night rsyncing the blastwave repository
> and then updating the mix directory (adding symlinks to new blastwave
> packages or removing them from removed packages).
>
> Then we pointed pkg-get to our mix repository and can now install
> blastwave and own packages in the same way.
>
> Attached is the perl script which does the magic of mixing the packages
> together and creating the catalog and description file. Comments are in
> German, so if you have any questions, please ask.
>
> Christopher
>