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-This is the README file for dak version -1.
+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 apt-utils) is insufficent, I strongly recommend
+you investigate mini-dinstall or debarchiver.
-dak is the collection of programs used to maintain the Debian GNU
-project archive.
+If you do insist on trying to try using it, please be careful: katie
+sends out lots of emails and if not configured properly will happily
+send them to lots of people who probably didn't want those emails.
-See TODO for an incomplete list of things needing to be done.
+Don't use katie.conf, apt.conf, cron.* etc. as starting points for
+your own configuration files, they're the configuration files for
+auric (aka ftp-master.debian.org) and are highly Debian specific.
+Start from scratch and refer to the security.debian.org config files
+(-security) as they're a better example for a private archive.
-See the file NEWS for user-visible changes since the last version.
+NB: don't be put off by the names, see doc/README.names for a mapping
+of name -> what the script does.
-See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
+There are some manpages and READMEs in the doc sub-directory. The
+TODO file is an incomplete list of things needing to be done.
-dak is used on the following platforms :-
-
-Linux/i386 2.2
-Linux/Sparc 2.4
+dak is developed and used on Linux but will probably work under any
+UNIX since it's almost entirely python and shell scripts.
dak is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
--
James Troup <james@nocrew.org>, Horsforth, Leeds
-Wed, 26 Sep 2001 06:34:50 +0100
+Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:47:49 +0000
+
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