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Re: Hosting deb server using Hugo?



On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 1:55 PM John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> wrote:
>
> On 2019-11-03 11:32, Holloway Kean Ho wrote:
> >  > Theoretically it is possible to do this with git, but it would be
> > terrifyingly ugly.
> > Yes, that's some light in the dark! This is what I want to hear in this
> > exploration
> > voyage. Don't worry, it's mainly for exploration and satisfying curiosity.
> >
> > Thanks for everything. =)
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 10:24 AM Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org
> > <mailto:pabs@debian.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sun, 2019-11-03 at 10:21 +0800, Holloway Kean Ho wrote:
> >
> >      > I'm restricted due to git version control service providers.
> >
> >     Sounds like you need to use a generic web hosting provider instead,
> >     then you can generate your apt repository locally and sync all the
> >     repository files over to the hosting provider. Theoretically it is
> >     possible to do this with git, but it would be terrifyingly ugly.
>
> I can't speak for the aesthetics, but it's very easy to create an eg
> reprepro debian/ directory locally, make it into a git repo and sync it
> to eg github.
> https://github.com/johnraff/helium-dev-repo-exp
> Apt can access the above (now obsolete) directory with the line:
> deb https://johnraff.github.io/helium-dev-repo-exp/debian/ helium main
>
> But it's also quite easy to do with rsync and ssh.

Man, you guys are awesome! Thanks for the shedding lights!
The demo exact thing I'm looking for as a reference. This is
going to be a fruitful exploration.

I'll try out the reprepro locally and generate a repo packaging
bash script to automate things up.

Thanks, all! XD

Holloway


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