nilsrennebarth/debrep

Flexible tool to create and maintain a debian package repository

debrep

A tool to create and maintain signed debian package repositories.

The software is currently in the alpha stage and allows maintainting a (binary only) debian package repository. Packages can be added, listed and deleted. The only subcommand not yet implemented is moving packages from one distribution to another, which is only an optimization for deleting and adding the packages.

Still to be done:

• Source packages
• Move packages between distributions and/or components
• Mark releases as Readonly
• Fill new release with references from an existing release
• More validity checks in particular for the options. Currently you get strange and unexpected errors when options have the wrong structure or type.
• Various options how different versions of the same package in one distribution are handled:
  • Only allow one version of a package per arch/distribution, adding a different one automatically replaces the previous one.
  • Same as previous, but addtionally only allow strictly higher versions.
  • Allow several versions of a package per distribution
• Audit trail logging all changes to the repository.

Features

Installation

Put the dr_lib directory in your standard python search path, and debrep somewhere in your path. Create a directory to hold your repository, and a subdir db where debrep will create the sqlite database.

Configuration

See design.rst, section Configuration items for now. You will need a config file, either in a global or in a user-specific location or relateive to the current working directory. The minimum config file is:

releases:
- name: foorel

Usage

See the manpage.

Use:

debrep add [-R release -C component ] file ...

to add packages to the repository.