Re: Which how to for apt-get repository on CentOS?
Does reprepro run on rpm based systems? So far I am not finding that
it does. I currently have to use a rpm based repository server for
reasons of history... -- IV
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Ignacio Valdes <ivaldes@hal-pc.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all, Building an apt-get repository on CentOS. There seems to be many
>>> documents on apt-get repository building but they point to many
>>> different commands like apparently deprecated dpkg-scanfiles, reprepro
>>> and others. Which one is the correct one? -- IV
>>
>> I recommend starting with reprepro. The documentation isn't ideal and it
>> can be confusing, but it does everything as opposed to requiring you to
>> stitch together a bunch of separate commands and it's fully capable of
>> anything you might need.
>>
>> There are some other, simpler ones tha I forget off-hand that might be
>> better for smaller repositories (reprepro does have the problem of having
>> a lot of reprepro make-angels-dance-on-pin sorts of commands where it's
>> very inobvious when you want to ever run them), but I think reprepro is
>> the current fully-functional standard for repository management software.
>
> I concurr with that recommendation of reprepro. If you follow
> /usr/share/doc/reprepro/short-howto.gz then you can be up and running in
> a few minutes. Learning about all the features takes longer though. I
> think reprepro is just the simplest all around for creating a
> repository.
>
>
> dpkg-scanpackages/sources can also be used but that only generated the
> Packages/Sources files. It does not generate Release or Release.gpg
> files or manage the debs or sources in any way. So to use that you need
> a lot of extra scripts around it.
>
> The official Debian archive uses apt-ftparchive but again you need
> scripts around that for a fully functional repository.
>
> Then there is also debpool and mini-dinstall. Both are targeted
> specifically for small private repositories with minimal dependcies. The
> full DAK Debian uses needs a postgresql database for example. Not these
> tools (reprepro used libdb-4.8.so, not postgresql). But I believe both
> debpool and mini-dinstall are limited by the archive size.
>
>
> Another reason why I also recommend reprepro is that it can also mirror
> (multiple) repositories and filter them. It is easy to set up reprepro
> to mirror debian main, contrib and non-free and add an extra local
> branch for packages you compile yourself. You can also snapshot your
> repository, e.g. to make a release of what is currently there. Or query
> what sources need building for some arch and run a buildd. Lots of nice
> features that are easy to use and might come in handy in the future.
> All with being small and easy to get started.
>
> MfG
> Goswin
>
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