Debian repository

Here you can find how to set up and maintain a debian repository. For more info checkout the manual.

• first of all, make sure reprepro is installed:

    $ sudo apt-get install reprepro
  

• Choose a location, for example /var/www/debian

    $ export DEBREPO="/var/www/debian"
  

• Make sure you have the filesender-dev private key in your gnupg keychain

• Create a file ${DEBREPO}/conf/distributions with this content:

    Codename: filesender
    SignWith: F0226697
    Suite: stable
    Components: main
    Architectures: amd64 i386 source
    Origin: http://www.filesender.org
    Description: The official stable filesender Debian repository
  
    Codename: filesender-dev
    SignWith: F0226697
    Suite: unstable
    Components: main
    Architectures: amd64 i386 source
    Origin: http://www.filesender.org
    Description: The official unstable filesender Debian repository
  

• Create the repository:

    $ reprepro -b $DEBREPO createsymlinks
  

• Now you can add packages:

    $ reprepro -b $DEBREPO includedeb stable mypackage.deb
  

• You can also add source packages, issue the reprepro man page for more info

Yum RPM repository

This can be done with fedora/redhat/centos, but also with debian/ubuntu.

• For debian, make sure the createrepo package is installed:

    $ sudo apt-get install createrepo
  

• Choose a place for the yum repository, for example /var/www/rpm

    $ export RPMREPO="/var/www/rpm"
  

• Copy the RPM's that you want to distribute to this directory
• Build the required metafiles:

    $ cd ${RPMREPO}
    $ createrepo -o . .
  

• Now people can access the repo, but they need to know how. Create a repo file and put this somewhere public so people can put it in /etc/yum.repo.d/

    [filesender-noarch]
    name=filesender-noarch
    baseurl=http://filesender-dev.surfnet.nl/rpm
    gpgkey=http://filesender-dev.surfnet.nl/filesender.armor
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=1
  

• Don't forget to make the filesender-dev private key also online, so people can verify the package. It needs to be in ascii armor format:

    $ gnupg --export --armor filesender-dev@filesender.org