Does reprepro run on rpm based systems? So far I am not finding that it does. I currently have to use a rpm based repository server for reasons of history... -- IV
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> wrote: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > >> Ignacio Valdes <ival...@hal-pc.org> writes: >> >>> Hi all, Building an apt-get repository on CentOS. There seems to be many >>> documents on apt-get repository building but they point to many >>> different commands like apparently deprecated dpkg-scanfiles, reprepro >>> and others. Which one is the correct one? -- IV >> >> I recommend starting with reprepro. The documentation isn't ideal and it >> can be confusing, but it does everything as opposed to requiring you to >> stitch together a bunch of separate commands and it's fully capable of >> anything you might need. >> >> There are some other, simpler ones tha I forget off-hand that might be >> better for smaller repositories (reprepro does have the problem of having >> a lot of reprepro make-angels-dance-on-pin sorts of commands where it's >> very inobvious when you want to ever run them), but I think reprepro is >> the current fully-functional standard for repository management software. > > I concurr with that recommendation of reprepro. If you follow > /usr/share/doc/reprepro/short-howto.gz then you can be up and running in > a few minutes. Learning about all the features takes longer though. I > think reprepro is just the simplest all around for creating a > repository. > > > dpkg-scanpackages/sources can also be used but that only generated the > Packages/Sources files. It does not generate Release or Release.gpg > files or manage the debs or sources in any way. So to use that you need > a lot of extra scripts around it. > > The official Debian archive uses apt-ftparchive but again you need > scripts around that for a fully functional repository. > > Then there is also debpool and mini-dinstall. Both are targeted > specifically for small private repositories with minimal dependcies. The > full DAK Debian uses needs a postgresql database for example. Not these > tools (reprepro used libdb-4.8.so, not postgresql). But I believe both > debpool and mini-dinstall are limited by the archive size. > > > Another reason why I also recommend reprepro is that it can also mirror > (multiple) repositories and filter them. It is easy to set up reprepro > to mirror debian main, contrib and non-free and add an extra local > branch for packages you compile yourself. You can also snapshot your > repository, e.g. to make a release of what is currently there. Or query > what sources need building for some arch and run a buildd. Lots of nice > features that are easy to use and might come in handy in the future. > All with being small and easy to get started. > > MfG > Goswin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq72btz8....@frosties.localdomain > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2l311679a81005062047p4d309070v71af5afd8bdec...@mail.gmail.com
