On 2025-11-03 13:41:07 -0500 (-0500), nick black wrote: [...]
i've used reprepro for most of this kind of thing (and more) for maybe twenty years.
Oh, great idea, thanks! I do already use reprepro for partial mirroring (and have for similarly long), but never thought about using it to create wholly new repositories from a loose collection of debs and source packages.
My main concern with reprepro for that purpose is that its state database can be a bit of a bear, but I could probably just blow it away every time and pretend it's stateless.
I also don't need a complicated pool setup like the official package repositories, but I guess having one isn't that big of a deal (even if I'd prefer everything in a single flat directory for this use case, like I get with apt-ftparchive). Or maybe reprepro can do that too and I've just never noticed...
-- Jeremy Stanley
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