Package distribute: Information
Source package: distribute
Version: 0.4.1-alt10
Build time: Mar 29, 2017, 09:19 PM in the task #181031
Category: Development/Other
Report package bugLicense: GPL
Summary: Distribute a collection of packages on multiple CDs (especially good for future use with APT)
Description:
`distribute' program makes doing the tasks related to creating a CD set for distribution of a collection of packages easier. The tasks include: laying out the CDs filesystem (splitting the large amount of packages into several discs etc.), preparing the collection for use by APT (indexing), creating ISO images and recording the discs. Periodical updates to the initially distributed collection can be issued with help of `distribute'. This utility will be useful to you, if you have a collection of packages on one machine (probably a mirror or a development site), and you want to bring them to your home computer (and install them to/upgrade the system there), or if you want to give them to a friend, or if you would like to distribute the collection of packages for some other purpose. Particularly, if you have an ALT-Sisyphus-based system at home, and if you want to upgrade it to the current state of Sisyphus, you can download them to another machine, use `distribute' utility there to create a CD set, come home and use APT to upgrade. You don't need to be your system's administrator to use `distribute': you can extract the contents to your home directory and use it (by setting apropriate P_ROOT). For distributing Sisyphus, have a look at /etc/distribute/tasks/Sisyphus.
Maintainer: Ivan Zakharyaschev
Last changed
March 29, 2017 Ivan Zakharyaschev 0.4.1-alt10
- when no obligatory 2nd arg, show usage, too (this was a regression in the previous 0.4.1-alt9).
March 29, 2017 Ivan Zakharyaschev 0.4.1-alt9
- when no cmdline args, show usage. - (docs, help message): + make clear that --usage and --help show different things. + updated version to 0.4.1-alt9 (in the source). + updated the URLs and names for ALT. + spell-checked slightly. + Russian docs recoded to UTF-8. - (.spec) don't have a fixed Packager.
Nov. 24, 2008 Vitaly Lipatov 0.4.1-alt8
- use subst instead php for template filling