Packaging

Libv's ultra simplistic reprepro workflow

This is my ultra-simplistic, non-scalable reprepro workflow, which is currently responsible for ubuntu repo. This is not a workflow proposal, it is documenting what is behind the current respository, before we start throwing stuff around.

Alejandro kindly linked /srv/http/sunxi/linux-sunxi.org/packages/ubuntu to ~/ubuntu

I have a directory called reprepro, and a .bash_profile which reads:

 export REPREPRO_BASE_DIR=/home/libv/reprepro 

So that i avoid accidentally recreating a new database and config somewhere else, leaving the whole thing in a disjoined state.

In ~/reprepro/conf/options, it reads:

outdir /home/libv/ubuntu
keepunreferencedfiles

I like to keep "older" packages around, so that people with slightly older package lists, or people who wish to compare different versions of the same code, can all be happy campers.

In ~/reprepro/conf/distributions, it reads:

Origin: packages.linux-sunxi.org
Label: Linux-sunxi ubuntu precise repository
Codename: precise
Architectures: armhf source
Components: main
Description: Linux-sunxi ubuntu Precise Pangolin package repo

Origin: packages.linux-sunxi.org
Label: Linux-sunxi ubuntu quantal repository
Codename: quantal
Architectures: armhf source
Components: main
Description: Linux-sunxi ubuntu Quantal Quetzal package repo

Origin: packages.linux-sunxi.org
Label: Linux-sunxi ubuntu raring repository
Codename: raring
Architectures: armhf source
Components: main
Description: Linux-sunxi ubuntu Raring Ringtail package repo

Origin: packages.linux-sunxi.org
Label: Linux-sunxi ubuntu saucy repository
Codename: saucy
Architectures: armhf source
Components: main
Description: Linux-sunxi ubuntu Saucy Salamander package repo

Note that SignWith directives are lacking, i am currently not signing packages.

I then manually scp packages into ~/incoming/ and manually run, for instance:

reprepro -V includedeb saucy *.deb
reprepro -V includedsc saucy *.dsc

while clearing out ~/incoming manually afterwards.