What?

A bunch of scripts to build packages for Arch Linux. Plus a server and CLI tool for sharing and deploying packages.

Why?

When you are running more than one server under Arch Linux you may need a shared repository with some custom packages. And this is it!

Features

Repeatable build in a clean container environment;
Build from a directory, from a tarball, fetching an URL (from AUR for instance);
The remote server keeps the packages database steady and solid;
A CLI tool which allows to run these actions on a remote server:
- List all branches;
- Create new branch;
- List packages in a branch;
- Download a package;
- Upload packages with replacing the old ones;
- Remove packages (branch removal is not implemented for the safety reasons);
- Update the server (for debug and development purposes);

WARNING! The server does not support any authorization!

Requirements

For build packages:

/etc/makepkg.conf (copies into container);
/etc/pacman.conf (copies into container);
podman
sudo
aria2c or wget or curl

For the deploy server and CLI tool:

python-aiohttp
python-pyzstd
python-requests
python-systemd

Server setup

Create an unprivileged user, arpm for instance.
Create a config ~/.config/arpm.conf:
```
 [server]
 host=0.0.0.0
 port=32475
```
Where host and port - address and port to listen on;

Create a systemd unit:

[Unit]
Description=ArchLinux repository and packages server

[Service]
Type=notify
User=arpm
Group=arpm
ExecStart=/usr/bin/arpm server -n /srv/archlinux/x86_64
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Where /srv/archlinux/x86_64 - is the packages root directory.

Run the server:

systemctl enable --now arpm

CLI tool usage

Create a config ~/.config/arpm.conf:
```
[server]
host=example.com
port=32475
```
Where example.com is the address of the server.
Build a package:

./build.sh 'https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/google-chrome.tar.gz'
Create a new branch on server, custom for instance:

./arpm.py branch mk custom
Upload package to the server:

./arpm.py pkg custom put out/*.pkg.tar.zstd

Append the URL with a new branch to the /etc/pacman.conf:

[custom]
Server = http://example.com/archlinux/$arch/$repo

License

GPL.