Another bash script to manage an apt repo

Simple bash script to manage a configurable multiarch and multirelease apt repository

Fetures

• Multi-arch
• Multi-suite
• Multi-components (2.1.0.1)
• APT repo directory tree creation (--mkdirs flag)
• Config files for apt-ftparchive creation (--createconf flag)
• Metadata creation for each arch, suite and component
• Release and InRelease signing
• Automatic gpg public key export (--rebuild flag)
• Minimal sources list creation (--rebuild tag)

Installation from apt repo (recomended way)

• It's the recomended way since some depends relies on the debian package management.

• Visit Berbascum's apt repo url to add the apt repo

• Install the pachage from apt

sudo apt-get install berb-apt-mgr

Usage

• The gpg key to use should be previously installed on the user's gnupg dir

• The KEYID should be in repo_path/key-ids.conf in this format:

gpg_key_id="<key_id>"

• bam local config file

repo_path/berb-apt-mgr.conf

• aptftp config: is autogenerated with "--createconf"

• Use "--rebuild" flag after:

  • Using --mkdirs and --createconfig flags
  • Adding new packages to any pool

• Script tags:

  --mkdirs: Creates the repo dir structure, based on the suites, components and archs configured in the berb-apt-mgr.conf file

  --rebuild: Rebuilds the repository metadata

  --createconf: Generates the aptftp.conf and aptgenerate.conf files from templates using the suites, components and archs configured in the berb-apt-mgr.conf file