Debian Bug report logs - #788843
reprepro: Cloning/duplicating/forking a distribution

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From: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: reprepro: Cloning/duplicating/forking a distribution

Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:04:59 +0200

Package: reprepro
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-kali

It would be nice if reprepro had the possibility to clone
a distribution under a new codename/suite.

Since this requires editing conf/distributions I would understand
if you opted to only document a sane way to do this... and not do
everything automatically (although to be fair, it would also be nice
if conf/distributions could be replaced with a set of 
debian/distributions/<codename> files).

I know of the snapshot command but here I really want a new distribution
that can evolve and that has a name unrelated to the distribution being
cloned.

For now, I'll do this and assume it's ok:
- cp -a dists/srcdist dists/targetdist (this ensures that I copies over
  also the installer files)
- create "targetdist" in conf/distributions with a pull rule pulling
  everything from "srcdist"
- do a "reprepro pull targetdist"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers squeeze-lts
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reprepro depends on:
ii  libarchive13     3.1.2-11+b1
ii  libbz2-1.0       1.0.6-8
ii  libc6            2.19-18
ii  libdb5.3         5.3.28-9
ii  libgpg-error0    1.19-2
ii  libgpgme11       1.5.1-6
ii  liblzma5         5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  pinentry-curses  0.9.4-2
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages reprepro recommends:
ii  apt  1.0.9.10

Versions of packages reprepro suggests:
ii  gnupg-agent  2.0.28-1
pn  inoticoming  <none>
pn  lzip         <none>

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