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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