On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:42:53 +0200, aitor_czr wrote in message
<5791CE7D.5000207@???>:

>
> Hi Arnt,
>
> On 07/21/2016 01:51 PM, Arnt Karlsen <arnt@???> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:35:18 +0200, aitor_czr wrote in message
> > <5790A566.5080906@???>:
> >> >Hi all,
> >> >
> >> >For those people working on live-build:
> >> >
> >> >I'll explain how to generate the /pool and the /dists trees,
> >> >containing all the packages, sources, Contents.gz, etc... But
> >> >first of all i want to do the following clarification: generating
> >> >the *Contents* takes TOO long.
> > ..aye. That's why I asked:
> > https://talk.devuan.org/t/mirroring-devuan/45/7
> > and how to convert my LAN Debian mirror into a Devuan mirror.
> >
>
> Thanks, i'll begin using talk.devuan.org for these stuffs :)

..I never got a response there, so I quit using that, I found
the mail list far more useful.

> And the IRC Canal... (i read it time to time)

..last time I touched IRC was in the early 1990-ies, I found
it fairly useless, email is far more useful IME, helps pack
far more thought into your typing.

..if you need IRC-style immediate responses, agree to run
fetchmail every minute.

> >> >I contacted "Bernhard R. Link" weeks ago referring to this issue,
> >> >and the author of reprepro kindly answered a few days after:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >[...] Given how opaque the format is there is little chance that
> >> >reprepro will ever support that format completely. (Writing
> >> >maintainable code to extract the Section and Priority for a source
> >> >package for example seems to be quite a show stopper there for
> >> >example).
> >> >
> >> >Though reprepro could gain some incomplete support for it. (I
> >> >guess there is some chance reprepro should already support
> >> >retrieving packages from other repositories in this format.
> >> >Adding such packages locally is likely not yet possible (though I
> >> >guess one would have to try to be sure)).
> >> >
> >> >But as this format is experimental and mostly abandoned for some
> >> >time it is not that high on my priority list
> > ..no big deal, we can e.g. adapt Francesco's
> > download_and_compile.sh and put them in vm build hosts.
>
> I just found it:
>
> https://github.com/rshk/FlightGearBuildScripts/blob/master/download_and_compile.sh
>
> http://wiki.flightgear.org/Scripted_Compilation_on_Linux_Debian/Ubuntu
>
> Thanks :)
>

>    Aitor.

>
>
>


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