APT-REPO-SERVER

apt-repo-server is a debian repository server. It monitors file changing event(inotify), then reproduce index file(Packages.gz) automatically.

Building

make image

Usage

Run server

make up

-or-

$ docker run -d --name repo -e DISTS="bionic,focal" -v ${PWD}/data:/data -p 10000:80 jplflyer/apt-repo-server

The DISTS environment variable controls the distributions expected. See the instructions for configuring apt-get further below.

Export a debian package

$ cp qnap-fix-input_0.1_all.deb  data/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/

In this case, we're dumping into the trusty distribution. But the way we show to start it, you might want that to be bionic or focal or whatever you personally use.

Note that scan.py hardcodes the main part. You're stuck there unless you update the Python script.

Structure

File structure looks like

$ tree data/
data/
└── dists
    ├── precise
    │   └── main
    │       ├── binary-amd64
    │       │   └── Packages.gz
    │       └── binary-i386
    │           └── Packages.gz
    └── trusty
        └── main
            ├── binary-amd64
            │   ├── Packages.gz
            │   └── qnap-fix-input_0.1_all.deb
            └── binary-i386
                └── Packages.gz

Packages.gz looks like

$ zcat data/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Package: qnap-fix-input
Version: 0.1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Doro Wu <dorowu@qnap.com>
Installed-Size: 33
Filename: ./qnap-fix-input_0.1_all.deb
Size: 1410
MD5sum: 8c08f13d61da1b8dc355443044bb2608
SHA1: 6deef134c94da7f03846a6b74c9e4258c514868f
SHA256: 7441f1616810d5893510d31eac2da18d07b8c13225fd2136e6a380aefe33c815
Section: utils
Priority: extra
Description: QNAP fix
 UNKNOWN

Configure apt-get

Update /etc/apt/sources.list

echo deb http://127.0.0.1:10000 trusty main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

Or create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. Files must end in .list.

echo deb http://127.0.0.1:10000 trusty main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/localhost.list

These set up for using trusty as the distribution, which is the original default. But the examples we use actually set up for bionic and focal, so you might want one of these:

For Ubuntu 18.04:

echo deb http://127.0.0.1:10000 bionic main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/localhost.list

For Ubuntu 20.04: echo deb http://127.0.0.1:10000 focal main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/localhost.list

It just has to match what you did when you started the repo and where you are stuffing your .deb files. Using bionic or focal or trusty is just text, and you can put anything there, as long as they match and make sense.

License

apt-repo is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.