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aptly repo

Local repository is a collection of packages (most usually custom packages created internally). Multiple versions of the same package could be added to the repository. In order to capture current repository state we use snapshot

repo

Create

Create local package repository. Repository would be empty when created, packages could be added to the repository from local files, copied or moved from another local repository or imported from the mirror. more

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aptly -distribution="jammy" -architectures="amd64" \
repo \
create \
my_repo

List

Commands list displays list of all local package repositories. more

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aptly repo list

Add

Command adds packages to local repository from .deb more

From deb folder location

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aptly repo add my_repo *deb

Snapshot

Snapshot is a fixed state of remote repository mirror or local repository. Internally snapshot is list of references to packages.

more

Creates snapshot from current state of local package repository. 

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aptly snapshot create <name> from repo <repo-name>
- name: snapshot name - repo-name: local repository name

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aptly snapshot create \
snap_my_repo \
from repo my_repo

Publish

Publishes snapshot as repository to be consumed by apt. more

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aptly publish snapshot <name> [<prefix>]
  • prefix: Add prefix to repo url
  • architectures: publish only selected arc from snapshot
  • distribution: distribution name to publish
  • skip-signing: don’t sign Release files with GPG
publish with prefix
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aptly -architectures="amd64" -skip-signing=true \
publish snapshot -architectures="amd64" \
snap_my_repo local

Serve

aptly can serve published repositories using its own embedded webserver. more

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aptly server

source.list

  • Add this line to use by apt
line in source.list
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deb http://lap2:8080/local/ jammy main

Reference