simpledeb aims to be the simplest way to create an apt repo from a collection
of .deb files. It can be run from any platform and has no dependencies. Typical
usage is:
# this generates signer.key and signer.pub in local dir
simpledeb key --name "My Name" --email "me@example.com"
# this adds the new pub key as trusted by apt
cat signer.pub | apt-key add -
# this generates the apt metadata hierarchy based on the passed-in debs
simpledeb build input/*.deb
tree .
# .
# ├── input
# │ ├── example_v0.0.5-next_linux_386.deb
# │ └── example_v0.0.5-next_linux_amd64.deb
# ├── repo
# │ └── dists
# │ └── stable
# │ ├── InRelease
# │ ├── Release
# │ ├── Release.gpg
# │ └── main
# │ ├── binary-amd64
# │ │ ├── Packages
# │ │ ├── Packages.gz
# │ │ └── example_v0.0.5-next_linux_amd64.deb
# │ └── binary-i386
# │ ├── Packages
# │ ├── Packages.gz
# │ └── example_v0.0.5-next_linux_386.deb
# ├── signer.key
# └── signer.pub
#
# 7 directories, 13 files
# now if you served the contents of `repo` at example.com, you could add this to your
# sources.list:
echo 'deb http://example.com/ stable main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
Note that simpledeb is "additive". When you run it a second time, it won't remove any files from the existing repo, it will only ever add to the collection.
This project is a fork of esell/deb-simple,
who did all the hard work. Any useful is thanks to them, any bugs are probably my
own work.