This is the README file for dak version -1.
-dak is the collection of programs used to maintain the Debian GNU
-project archive.
+dak is the collection of programs used to maintain the Debian
+project's archives. It's not yet in a state where it can be easily
+used by others; if you want something to maintain a small archive and
+apt-ftparchive (from apt-utils) is insufficent, I recommend you
+investigate mini-dinstall or debarchiver.
-See TODO for an incomplete list of things needing to be done.
+There are some manpages and READMEs in the doc sub-directory. The
+TODO file is an incomplete list of things needing to be done.
-See the file NEWS for user-visible changes since the last version.
-
-See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
-
-dak is used on the following platforms :-
-
-Linux/i386 2.2
-Linux/Sparc 2.4
+dak is developed and used on Linux but will probably work under any
+UNIX since it's almost entirely python and shell scripts.
dak is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
--
James Troup <james@nocrew.org>, Horsforth, Leeds
-Wed, 26 Sep 2001 06:34:50 +0100
+Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:47:49 +0000
+
-approved:
+ TODO
+ ====
+
+[NB: I use this as a thought record/scribble, not everything on here
+ makes sense and/or is actually ever going to get done, so IIWY I
+ wouldn't use it as gospel for the future of katie or as a TODO
+ list for random hacking.]
+
+================================================================================
+
+approved
+--------
o What to do with multi-suite uploads? Presumably hold in unapproved
and warn? Or what? Can't accept just for unstable or reject just
o security uploads on auric should be pre-approved.
- TODO
- ====
-[NB: I use this as a thought record/scribble, not everything on here
- makes sense and/or is actually ever going to get done, so IIWY I
- wouldn't use it as gospel for the future of katie or as a TODO
- list for random hacking.]
-
-================================================================================
+Others
+------
[minor] kelly's copychanges, copykatie handling sucks, the per-suite
thing is static for all packages, so work out in advance dummy.
[madison] # filenames ?
[madison] # maintainer, component, install date (source only?), fingerprint?
-Actually Urgent
----------------
-
o UrgencyLog stuff should minimize it's bombing out(?)
- o Log stuff should open the log file g+w lamer
-
-More Urgent
------------
+ o Log stuff should open the log file
- o [melanie] I was thinking, bomb out if a) no '[rene]' in the
- -m/--message, and b) no other -d/--done or -C/--carbon-copy
+ o [melanie] bomb out if a) no '[rene]' in the -m/--message, and b)
+ no other -d/--done or -C/--carbon-copy
o helena should footnote the actual notes, and also * the versions
with notes so we can see new versions since being noted...
o helena should have alternative sorting options, including reverse
and without or without differentiaion.
- o julia should sync debadmin and ftpmaster
+ o julia should sync debadmin and ftpmaster (?)
- <drow> Can't read file.: /org/security.debian.org/queue/accepted/accepted/apache-perl_1.3.9-14.1-1.21.20000309-1_sparc.katie. You assume that the filenames are relative to accepted/, might want to doc or fix that.
-
-<neuro> the orig was in NEW, the changes that caused it to be NEW were pulled out in -2, and we end up with no orig in the archive :(
+ o <drow> Can't read file.:
+ /org/security.debian.org/queue/accepted/accepted/apache-perl_1.3.9-14.1-1.21.20000309-1_sparc.katie.
+ You assume that the filenames are relative to accepted/, might want
+ to doc or fix that.
+ o <neuro> the orig was in NEW, the changes that caused it to be NEW
+ were pulled out in -2, and we end up with no orig in the archive
+ :(
+
o SecurityAcceptedAutoBuild doesn't handle the case of foo_3.3woody1
- with a new .orig.tar.gz followed by a foo_3.3potato1 with the same
- .orig.tar.gz; jennifer sees it and copes, but the AA code doesn't
- and can't really easily know so the potato AA dir is left with no
- .orig.tar.gz copy. doh.
+ with a new .orig.tar.gz followed by a foo_3.3potato1 with the same
+ .orig.tar.gz; jennifer sees it and copes, but the AA code doesn't
+ and can't really easily know so the potato AA dir is left with no
+ .orig.tar.gz copy. doh.
o orig.tar.gz in accepted not handled properly (?)
o distinguish binary only versus others (neuro)
o cache changes parsed from ordering (careful tho: would be caching
- .changes from world writable incoming, not holding); katie should
- certainly be using .katie files, not parsing changes, that's just
- silly.
+ .changes from world writable incoming, not holding)
o katie doesn't recognise binonlyNMUs correctly in terms of telling
who their source is; source-must-exist does, but the info is not
table. Then fix charisma to use them and write some scripting
to handle the Santiago situation. ]
- o (Depends) <aj> elmo: it should match \(\s*(<<|<|<=|=|>=|>|>>)\s*<VERSIONREGEXP>\) fwiw
+ o Validate Depends (et al.) [it should match \(\s*(<<|<|<=|=|>=|>|>>)\s*<VERSIONREGEXP>\)]
o Clean up DONE; archive to tar file every 2 weeks, update tar tvzf INDEX file.
o change utils.copy to try rename() first
o [hard, long term] unchecked -> accepted should go into the db, not
- a suite, but similar. this would allow katie to get even faster,
- make madison more useful, decomplexify specialacceptedautobuild and
- generally be more sane. may even be helpful to have e.g. new in the
- DB, so that we avoid corner cases like the .orig.tar.gz disappearing
- 'cos the package has been entirely removed but was still on
- stayofexecution when it entered new.
+ a suite, but similar. this would allow katie to get even faster,
+ make madison more useful, decomplexify specialacceptedautobuild
+ and generally be more sane. may even be helpful to have e.g. new
+ in the DB, so that we avoid corner cases like the .orig.tar.gz
+ disappearing 'cos the package has been entirely removed but was
+ still on stayofexecution when it entered new.
o Logging [mostly done] (todo: rhona (hard), .. ?)
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