Re: Publicly submittable repository

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:17 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:53:30AM -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
> > I've recently gotten into Debian packaging, and the Debian community has
> > put together a public repository for packages not in the main
> > archive[1].
> 
> > If I get enough positive response from this I will draft up a more
> > formal proposal. This would have to be a volunteer & cooperative effort.
> > For example, I do not have bandwidth nor server space to host anything,
> > but I am willing to put in time to develop a website & submission system
> > (possibly even package submission tools, like shell scripts and such
> > that upload).
> > So what do you guys think?
> 
> I'd love package submission tools! Maybe the ones there can be used directly?

Off-hand, I'd say we'd need a fixed archive (repository) structure. Or
possibly write it into a config file. I've written up a series of
scripts I've titled spc-rpm-<function> like, spc-rpm-build,
spc-rpm-release, etc. They're along the same lines as package submission
tools. Submission tools could theoretically allow multiple users to add
packages to one archive. mentors.debian.net uses machine accounts for
each user and scp. Its possible to use anonymous upload, and have a
script run on the server that checks package signatures, and possibly
some other validation, and then adds them to the repository. Like
always, just brainstorming.

> > 1: http://mentors.debian.net/
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> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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Link Dupont <[email protected]>