4 o Please be careful: katie sends out lots of emails and if not
5 configured properly will happily send them to lots of people who
6 probably didn't want those emails.
8 o Don't use katie.conf, apt.conf, cron.* etc. as starting points for
9 your own configuration files, they're the configuration files for
10 auric (aka ftp-master.debian.org) and are highly Debian specific.
11 Start from scratch and refer to the security.debian.org config files
12 (-security) as they're a better example for a private archive.
14 o Don't be put off by the names, see doc/README.names for a mapping of
15 name -> what the script does.
17 What do all these scripts do?
18 =============================
20 Generic and generally useful
21 ----------------------------
25 * jennifer - processes queue/unchecked
26 * kelly - processes queue/accepted
27 * lisa - processes queue/new and queue/byhand
29 o To generate indices files:
31 * jenna - generates file lists for apt-ftparchive and removes
32 obsolete packages from suites
33 * ziyi - generates Release
37 * rhona - to remove obsolete files from the pool
38 * shania - to remove obsolete/stray files from the queue
39 * melanie - to remove package(s) from suite(s)
41 o Information display:
43 * madison - shows information about package(s)
44 * helena - shows information about package(s) in queue/
46 Generic and useful, but only for those with existing archives
47 -------------------------------------------------------------
49 o catherine - migrates packages from legacy locations to the pool
50 o neve - initializes a projectb database from an exisiting archive
52 Generic but not overly useful (in normal use)
53 ---------------------------------------------
55 o ashley - dumps info in .katie files
56 o julia - sync PostgreSQL users with system users
57 o rene - check for obsolete or duplicated packages
58 o rose - directory creation in the initial setup of an archive
59 o tea - various sanity checks of the database and archive
60 o natalie - manpiulates/list override entries
61 o heidi - removes/adds/lists package(s) from/to/for a suite
62 o saffron - produces various statistics
67 To generate less-used indices files:
69 o charisma - generates Maintainers file
70 o denise - generates override.<foo> files
72 Mostly Debian(.org) specific
73 ----------------------------
75 o amber - wrapper for Debian security team
76 o halle - removes obsolete .changes files from proposed-updates
77 o jeri - basic dependency checking for proposed-updates
79 Very Incomplete or otherwise not generally useful
80 -------------------------------------------------
82 o alyson - currently only initializes a DB from a katie.conf config file
83 o andrea - looks for version descrepancies that shouldn't exist in many
85 o cindy - override cruft checker that doesn't work well with New Incoming
87 Scripts invoked by other scripts
88 --------------------------------
90 o fernanda - invoked by lisa to "check" NEW packages
91 o claire - invoked by catherine to determine packages still in legacy locations
92 o katie - common code used by lisa, jennifer, kelly and others
97 [Very incomplete - FIXME]
99 o Write your own katie.conf and apt.conf files
101 o If you have an existing archive: