[debpool] Does it make sense to convert to debpool now?

[Magnus Holmgren]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 12:49, Marc Haber wrote:
> [...] This goes
> without need to recompile and without need to reupload, it is just a
> change in the 00distlist file.
>
> For me, it is vital to have the distribution list sitting in the same
> directory as the package files.
>
> How would I handle an arrangement like this with debpool? Is it
> possible? If yes, would it be wise to use the version currently in
> experimental, or do I have to expect major changes in configuration
> when your first package is being uploaded?

There is still much to do before we have a meaningful distribution handling. 
Right now the distributions are pretty much separate and there is merely code 
to let them share files in the pool. Actually I'm not sure what happens if 
somebody uploads different files with the same version, or files of the same 
names but different content.

Information about which versions of which packages are in which distributions 
and which segments (main, contrib, ...) is stored in an NDBM database, but 
the metadata for the Packages and Sources files are in text files in the pool 
directories. I don't know if this is a good idea. I think that we should 
either put both in a database or both in one or more text files, and text 
files have the distinct advantage of being editable using a text editor.

One question though: Does it happen that you have only some of the binary 
packages from a certain source package in a certain distribution? Otherwise 
it seems rather redundant (although I guess it could be how your program 
knows what records to include in the Packages files.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmgren at lysator.liu.se
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