repomate 0.1.1

# RepoMate Tool to manage debian repositories. ## This project is really new and not completely tested. Use it at your own risk. ## The idea The idea was to create a small, leightweight and easy to use debian repository management tool that provides a staging area for jenkins package builds using fpm-cookery, basic gpg support and some custom features. Every destructive action can be reverted. It's roughly not finished yet! ### Package lifecycle As mentioned before, RepoMate has a staging area. Every package you are trying to add through the commandline interface will be copied to the staging area. This action will not affect your production pool. You have to publish a package or a set of packages to bring them into production. When you do, the selected packages will be moved from "stage" to "pool" (This is like an archive) and linked from the "pool" to "dists". Note that "dists"" normally contains just all the metafiles like Packages or Packages.gz. We like to have all what apt needs in just one directory. newpackage -> (add) -> stage -> (publish) -> production ## Features ### Checkpoints Checkpoints may help if you accidently published a bunch of packages to the wrong suite (lenny, squeeze,…) or component (main, contrib, non-free,…). If you did: repomate load Choose the last checkpoint and be happy again. Note that checkpoints will be auto-saved before each publish sequence. ## Installation ### Repository server dpkg is used to compare package versions. I tried to do it on my own, but debian uses very annoying version strings with a couple of variants. Please make sure you have the following packages installed: * ruby * dpkg * libsqlite3-dev #### Get RepoMate gem install repomate #### Configure RepoMate GPG ist enabled by default. If you don't want it, just set the value of gpg_enable to "no" otherwise generate a gpg key and add the needed values to the configfile. Create the config file if you don't want the default configuration. vi ~/.repomate Sample config: --- :rootdir: /var/lib/repomate/repository :logdir: /var/log/repomate :dpkg: /usr/bin/dpkg :suites: - lenny - squeeze :components: - main - contrib :architectures: - all - amd64 :origin: Repository :label: Repository :gpg_enable: yes :gpg_email: someone@example.net :gpg_password: secret #### Configure webserver Configure your favorite webserver by adding RepoMate's rootdirectory to a site or vhost. #### Adding packages repomate add -s squeeze package.deb repomate publish ### Client Add something like this to your machines /etc/apt/sources.list: deb [arch=all,amd64] http://server/repository squeeze main ### Examples Setup base directory structure (optional): repomate setup -s squeeze [ -c main ] Add a package to the staging area: repomate add -s squeeze Publish all packages from the staging area. That means they will be linked to production: repomate publish Load a checkpoint: repomate load Save a checkpoint: repomate save List all packages in pool: repomate listpackages -r pool List all packages in stage: repomate listpackages -r stage