creating your own debian package repository
On Aug 20, Eric Winger (ewinger@keyww.com) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Continuing our investigation into debian packages, we'd like to be able
> to create our own internal archive/repository for just our packages.
> Then change our sources.list file to point at that and be able to use
> the apt-get engines to update our code on any machine at any of our
> facilities.
>
> I don't see much information on what an archive is, how one
> creates/administers one, how one puts packages in one and identifies it
> to sources.list. I suspect that info is there, I'm just missing it.
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference talks about the debian
> archive, but not maintaining your own.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> * Is this a reasonable way to maintain our internal packages - ie a
> seperate archive? Or is there a better way.
> * If this is the most reasonable way, where is the information on
> building/maintaining your own archive.
>
> btw - we're only talking about a few packages. < 10.
>
> thx much,
>
> Eric
Sounds reasonable. Did you read the APT HOWTO?
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Neil Roeth
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