On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 06:50:05PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > 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... FWIW, I've used reprepro for more than fifteen years to manage both a couple of personal repositories and a couple of work ones. Lately I've been giving aptly a test drive, and for some cases (but not all) it seems to be easier to drive in an automated fashion. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org peter@morpheusly.com PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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