X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dak.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=2f9d5909f32c6a5fa456e42f67310bb63b7b7a83;hp=d2d335129390e4fffd0c50a27834e08e6f26aa4f;hb=515d2cc2253f9fe724275857852e172b91346c6b;hpb=fa7b68ee3d2c9d467669021fd62e09a407e1244a diff --git a/README b/README index d2d33512..2f9d5909 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -7,24 +7,20 @@ This is unreleased alpha software; use it ENTIRELY at your own risk. 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. +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'. -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. +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. -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. +There's a mailing list for discussion, development of and help with +dak. See: -NB: don't be put off by the names, see doc/README.names for a mapping -of name -> what the script does. + https://lists.debian.org/debian-dak/ -There are some manpages and READMEs in the doc sub-directory. The -TODO file is an incomplete list of things needing to be done. +for archives and details on how to subscribe. dak is developed and used on Linux but will probably work under any UNIX since it's almost entirely python and shell scripts. @@ -37,8 +33,5 @@ version. -- James Troup , Horsforth, Leeds -Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:47:49 +0000 - - - +Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:56:02 +0000