X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d2d335129390e4fffd0c50a27834e08e6f26aa4f;hb=fa7b68ee3d2c9d467669021fd62e09a407e1244a;hp=e9908a1009fd1dbf84413d45fb951865e8c4b877;hpb=cb2f76d9a2039de8dcc73c7c302043dff5132eee;p=dak.git diff --git a/README b/README index e9908a10..d2d33512 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,13 +4,24 @@ This is unreleased alpha software; use it ENTIRELY at your own risk. ***** WARNING ****** ***** WARNING ****** ***** WARNING ****** -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 recommend you -investigate mini-dinstall or debarchiver. +apt-ftparchive (from apt-utils) is insufficent, I strongly recommend +you investigate mini-dinstall or debarchiver. + +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. + +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. + +NB: don't be put off by the names, see doc/README.names for a mapping +of name -> what the script does. There are some manpages and READMEs in the doc sub-directory. The TODO file is an incomplete list of things needing to be done.