apt-transport-s3-rust

This is a single executable apt-transport for s3:// urls written in Rust.

Motivation

It was written to replace (the excellent) apt-transport-s3 so that python didn't need to be installed on systems that otherwise didn't require it. This was important for provisioning AMIs where the only apt repositories were local s3 caches—installing python becomes an annoying chicken-and-egg problem. This project simplifies the issue by adding just a single binary download before apt can be used.

Building

cargo build --release

Installing

strip target/release/apt-transport-s3
cp target/release/apt-transport-s3 /usr/lib/apt/method/s3

Debugging

 echo '600 URI Acquire
 URI: s3://my-bucket/my-key
 Filename: /tmp/output-file
 Last-Modified: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 07:28:00 GMT

 ' | APT_TRANSPORT_S3_DEBUG=1 cargo run

License

Copyright © 2021 David Caldwell david@porkrind.org

MIT Licensed: See LICENSE file for details.