Debian Archive Kit

dak is the collection of programs used to maintain the Debian project's archives. It's not yet in a state where it can be easily used by others; if you want something to maintain a small archive and apt-ftparchive (from the apt-utils package) is insufficient, I strongly recommend you investigate mini-dinstall, debarchiver or similar. However, if you insist on trying to try using dak, please read the documentation in 'doc/README.first'.

There are some manual pages and READMEs in the doc sub-directory. The TODO file is an incomplete list of things needing to be done.

There's a mailing list for discussion, development of and help with dak. See:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-dak/

for archives and details on how to subscribe.

Vagrant + Puppet modification

The aim is to be able to clone this repo and run:

git clone git@github.com:haf/puppet-dak.git
cd puppet-dak
git submodule update --init
bundle
vagrant up

and have a finished debian repository running locally. While this is the aim, most likely are you going to have to configure your GPG keys before running vagrant up, because the repository requires signatures to work.

Requirements

In order to do the above properly, you need ruby/rubygems installed; do this:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby --gems=bundler

Follow the instructions that the bash script gives you.

Future of this repo

I'm aiming to make it a pure puppet repository, without all the source-code of dak, but while that is the aim, the first milestone is getting it up and running for people to use for testing their debs in a realistic setting.

When I finish the pieces required to get it up and running, I'm going to transform the repository: deleting all history, by overwriting with the commits required for the module -- only. The module will then pull in the source code of dak to a known location, and use that git clone as its foundation for bringing up the system.

Henrik 2012.