Hi Paul, On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 20:44 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Hi folks, > > I thought i'd ask a technical question here to give us a bit of relief > from the leadership structure and all that. :-) > > I have previously maintained my own software repository for my Debian > systems, but it fell into disuse. When i came back to re-visit the > question, i found that the ballgame had changed, and my scripts to > maintain my site (they used dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources) > don't work any more. I found this page which talks about tools to > create my own repository: > <http://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository>. That page > doesn't seem to nominate a clear winner, and lots of the products seem > to be poorly documented or abandoned. > > Here are the factors in my repository creation equation: > 1. I need to support Debian & Ubuntu, both i386 & amd64 (but > preferably all architectures) with one repository and one > build process. > 2. Most of my packages are small and architecture-independent > (perl scripts, Java programs, and the like), but i don't want > to be limited to this. > 3. I want to run the repository on my own LAN to provide maximum > speed and availability to my servers - this rules out using > PPA. > 4. I want to use a product that is under active development > and/or use by Debian and/or Ubuntu developers - this means it > should be available in main or universe. > 5. I'd prefer to maintain as few repository management files as > possible. The archive will not get big and complex, so it's > OK to maintain some by hand, but i'd rather not. > 6. I want to keep all older versions of my packages online. (My > old scripts used to complain every time i uploaded a new > version because there were already 27 existing versions in the > repository.) > 7. I'd prefer to find something that is reasonably > well-documented, because asking Debian developers for help is > like extracting blood from a stone (just try #debian on IRC > sometime if you don't believe me), and Ubuntu folks tend to > look at you all weird-like when you don't want to do > everything through launchpad & PPA. > Is this a reasonable list? Is there a product that fits the bill?
I can't help with the build side of things, all my package building isn't automated. For the serving of packages I use reprepro and nginx, for info check out the blog post I prepared earlier http://davehall.com.au/blog/dave/2010/02/06/howto-setup-private-package-repository-reprepro-nginx I think it ticks all the boxes except #6 out of the box, but a quick shell script should help with the archiving bit. I keep all of my packaging stuff in version control so I don't need to keep old versions kicking around. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
