During last weeks, i have switched to git minitage, and by default all come from it.

The failure here is that my git fetcher is not very sympathic with older versions of git (<1.5).

But on debian and red hat legacy, it's a pain in the ass to have relativly new stuff !!!

To resolve that, with workmates, we come to the decision to fetch packages over http.

And now, it's done. Minimerge codebase is 'HttpCompliant' in sense that defaults minilays and packages are fetched via the minitage static fetcher.

This one just use urllib, and you can even set proxies in your minimerge.cfg

To be up-to-date:

easy_install -U minitage.core
mv etc/minimerge.cfg etc/minimerge.cfg.old
cd minilays
mkdir ../old
mv meta misc eggs dependencies ../old
minimerge -s

A teamate wanted to have a binary like the package manager he was used to use.

Its done, now instead of calling minimerge, you can use either:

• minimerge
• yasty
• apty
• pacmerge