[Piuparts-devel] using piuparts master/slave for "sub-distributions"

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Dienstag, 15. November 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> (this mail is a lot of brainstorming, looking for input)

ok, cool! :)
 
> Currently piuparts in master/slave mode works quite well for main. But
> it would be nice to be able to run piuparts on contrib, non-free,
> *-updates, */updates (aka security), *-backports too.And of course
> nothing of this should be hardcoded

indeed.

[...]
> Possible implementation fro the latter approach: in piuparts.conf add an
> (optional) "area" key, defaulting to "main" and possibly multi-valued as
> in "main contrib non-free" ("contrib" or "non-free" standalone would not
> make that much sense).
> When generating packages URLs, just generate one for each area value and
> load them all together.
> 
> With this approach we can reduce the sub-distribution dependencies to
> 
> squeeze: (none)
> squeeze-updates: squeeze
> squeeze/updates: squeeze
> squeeze-backports: squeeze

As long as there are no non-free/contrib sources used when testing main (etc), 
I'm perfectly fine with this approach. piuparts-reports should generate 
seperated views though.


cheers,
	Holger