Merging apt repositories
Posted by g8se on Wed 1 Mar 2006 at 10:37
I've just been reading Michael Jang's "Linux Patch Management". The chapter on Debian isn't very detailed, and I was wondering if this is a solved problem under Debian.
I'd be great if it was possible to create a merged apt-repository containing (for example) the most recent packages from the sarge archive (or a portion of it, like i386), the corresponding security archive, and a local repository.
Then you could freeze your merged repository, test it till you are happy about it, and push it out to a production repository. This allows you to control a repository so that the organizations servers can auto update from it.
Does anyone know of a way to merge apt repositories?
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Although I've never used it in that fashion reprepro claims to handle merging repositories.
(We've previously discussed using reprepro to setup a local apt-get repository.)
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However it doesn't allow you to have a test environment, to approve packages before they go to production servers. Sarge and security updates have good records for not breaking stuff on upgrades, but not perfect records. The recent sudo update could have broken scripts that were particular to your environment. And if you were pinning from other locations, you could get a large variety in quality.
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