deloptes wrote: > > > The problem is I don't need a ton of information :-) I need to hear from > > someone who has already done that for themselves: "I use such and such > > tools, and publish my repo this way..." > > Well, I use debuild to build and reprepro to maintain a local repository of > former KDE3 now called TDE.
I've already tried reprepro and it seems to do its job well in publishing the packages I feed to it. Now it's building time. > I do not build automatically but from time to time I pull changes and build > the packages. Because there are dependencies it depends which package > changes this affects other packages. For that reason I created a Makefile > (actually few of them that complement each other). > You have to rebuild all dependencies if you rebuild one package. You simply > can not just build and replace a package in production environment without > testing it, making a backup or whatever. There lies the point which I don't completely understand yet. If I want to build a php or exim4 package with my own build options, to what extent should I also build their dependencies? And how do I name those packages so that they coexist with the default Debian ones? OTOH, sometimes I would want my package (e.g. tcpdump with my patch) to override Debian's one. > I guess the answer to your question is that there is no such out of the box > tool, but you need something specific to your setup. Pity. I wonder what those people and companies use who publish their own repos/products for Debian (Hashicorp, PostgreSQL, Zabbix etc). > Also consider the number of debian packages - You surely need a small > subset - again you have to configure this for yourself. > I guess all here would agree that with the release model of Debian you have > a lot of freedom (stable-testing-experimental) to save time on rebuilding > packages, otherwise it is called Gentoo. Can I use some of the Gentoo ecosystem on Debian, for a few selected packages? Or maybe snap is for me? > On top of that don't forget that debian packages include patches and fixes > specific to debian. I hoped to download Debian's source packages (already including all Debian-specific stuff) and just rebuild them with minimal changes/patches. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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