Comments on: My Own Private Debian Repository http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/ A partial repository of whatever comes to mind Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:51:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike Renfro http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/comment-page-1/#comment-14630 Mike Renfro Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:35:57 +0000 http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/#comment-14630 I think you'd do multiple releases with an overrides file for dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources. I haven't needed that myself, since I tend to stick with Debian stable, only upgrade or reinstall during a semester break, and most of my packages are big commercial binaries that would work on multiple Debian versions anyway. But <a href="http://damaris.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Development#Upload_Debian_Packages" rel="nofollow">this Berlios page</a> has instructions that indicate something along the lines of <code>dpkg-scanpackages -m -ai386 pool/contrib/d/damaris indices/override.testing.contrib|gzip -c > dists/testing/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz</code> for testing and <code>dpkg-scanpackages -ai386 pool/contrib/d/damaris indices/override.stable.contrib|gzip -c > dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz</code> for stable. That might be enough to get you working. Let me know if it is. I think you’d do multiple releases with an overrides file for dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources.

I haven’t needed that myself, since I tend to stick with Debian stable, only upgrade or reinstall during a semester break, and most of my packages are big commercial binaries that would work on multiple Debian versions anyway.

But this Berlios page has instructions that indicate something along the lines of dpkg-scanpackages -m -ai386 pool/contrib/d/damaris indices/override.testing.contrib|gzip -c > dists/testing/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz for testing and dpkg-scanpackages -ai386 pool/contrib/d/damaris indices/override.stable.contrib|gzip -c > dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz for stable.

That might be enough to get you working. Let me know if it is.

]]> By: Jérôme Pouiller http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/comment-page-1/#comment-13834 Jérôme Pouiller Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:18:45 +0000 http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/#comment-13834 Nice. But, what hapends if I have mutliple releases? My pool directory will contains differents revision of same package. I want dpkg-scan* only scan package revisions for a particular release (as in ftp.debian.org). How to do? Nice.

But, what hapends if I have mutliple releases? My pool directory will contains differents revision of same package. I want dpkg-scan* only scan package revisions for a particular release (as in http://ftp.debian.org). How to do?

]]> By: Velociroflcoptersaurus http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/comment-page-1/#comment-7329 Velociroflcoptersaurus Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:33:42 +0000 http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/#comment-7329 Pretty tricky - nice effort! Pretty tricky – nice effort!

]]> By: » Making Solaris Packages from Commercial Software Mike Renfro http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/comment-page-1/#comment-3976 » Making Solaris Packages from Commercial Software Mike Renfro Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:24:59 +0000 http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/#comment-3976 [...] to a Debian repository, a pkg-get repository is pretty simple. From the top-level folder in the repository on the ftp [...] [...] to a Debian repository, a pkg-get repository is pretty simple. From the top-level folder in the repository on the ftp [...]

]]> By: Mike Renfro’s Blog : Making Solaris Packages from Commercial Software http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/comment-page-1/#comment-2314 Mike Renfro’s Blog : Making Solaris Packages from Commercial Software Wed, 21 May 2008 21:23:58 +0000 http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/#comment-2314 [...] to a Debian repository, a pkg-get repository is pretty simple. From the top-level folder in the repository on the ftp [...] [...] to a Debian repository, a pkg-get repository is pretty simple. From the top-level folder in the repository on the ftp [...]

]]> By: Mike Renfro http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Mike Renfro Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:23:53 +0000 http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/#comment-43 Yeah, I can drop the uncompressed Packages files entirely, but I kept them in there because I occasionally browse them outside of apt. I may have misconfigured Apache2, or else my normal Windows Firefox settings, because if I try to view a .gz file, Firefox will just try to download it rather than uncompressing it on the fly. Yeah, I can drop the uncompressed Packages files entirely, but I kept them in there because I occasionally browse them outside of apt. I may have misconfigured Apache2, or else my normal Windows Firefox settings, because if I try to view a .gz file, Firefox will just try to download it rather than uncompressing it on the fly.

]]> By: Peter Hoeg http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Peter Hoeg Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:22:04 +0000 http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/#comment-40 Mike, you can cut one step out from your (Releases|Sources).gz generation scripts: mkdir -p dists/$release/$category/binary-$architecture dpkg-scanpackages -a $architecture pool/$category /dev/null \ 2>/dev/null | gzip -c > \ dists/$release/$category/binary-$architecture/Packages.gz mkdir -p dists/$release/$category/source dpkg-scansources pool/$category /dev/null \ 2>/dev/null | gzip -c > \ dists/$release/$category/source/Sources.gz Mike, you can cut one step out from your (Releases|Sources).gz generation scripts:

mkdir -p dists/$release/$category/binary-$architecture
dpkg-scanpackages -a $architecture pool/$category /dev/null \
2>/dev/null | gzip -c > \
dists/$release/$category/binary-$architecture/Packages.gz

mkdir -p dists/$release/$category/source
dpkg-scansources pool/$category /dev/null \
2>/dev/null | gzip -c > \
dists/$release/$category/source/Sources.gz

]]> By: Mike Renfro’s Blog : Making Debian Packages from Commercial Software http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Mike Renfro’s Blog : Making Debian Packages from Commercial Software Mon, 28 May 2007 22:20:58 +0000 http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/28/my-own-private-debian-repository/#comment-31 [...] through dpkg -i, but we still need to get it into an apt-compatible repository. That part warrants another post entirely. Posted by Mike Renfro on Monday, May 28, 2007, at 11:36 am, and filed under infrastructures, [...] [...] through dpkg -i, but we still need to get it into an apt-compatible repository. That part warrants another post entirely. Posted by Mike Renfro on Monday, May 28, 2007, at 11:36 am, and filed under infrastructures, [...]

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