Is there a way to generate a repo with multiple suites in it?

[obbardc]

As the question asks.

This is more of a way for me to keep track of ideas I am having...

[danielhjames]

Yes, please see an example at http://apt.sourcefabric.org/dists/ which is built with reprepro. For a package which does not contain any binaries, the path to the *all.deb might be the same in every Packages file across the different suites, for example the second entry on http://apt.sourcefabric.org/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages

Binary packages built against certain library versions in a particular suite can be given a suite suffix to help identify them, for example booktype_2.0.0~jessie-1_all.deb

You can even have multiple dists per suite if you use unique codenames, see the second answer to http://askubuntu.com/questions/252047/how-do-i-setup-multiple-suites-in-reprepro

[obbardc]

Right, but I want to do this with the pdk repogen command.

With my picax.xml file looking like the following, I can get pdk repogen picax.xml to give me an APT repo with the suite testing in it.

I'm just wondering if I can get the commands to make more than one suite with no additional fuss or other software.

The pdk repogen command will remove the target directory.

<component>
  <id>testing</id>
  <meta>
    <apt-deb.key>apt@64studio.com</apt-deb.key>
  </meta>
  <contents>
    <component>core.xml</component>
  </contents>
</component>

[obbardc]

Reprepro does a better job than PDK for this.