Feature: maintain apt repository

[aidansteele]

goreleaser does a phenomenal job of building the distributable packages for each platform. What would make it insanely useful is if it could also manage an apt repository -- much like it currently does for Homebrew taps and Scoop.

Right now I'm achieving this using deb-s3, but this is suboptimal as:

• It's a second tool
• Requires a Ruby toolchain installed

What do you think? Is this something you would find valuable being added to goreleaser?

[caarlos0]

I'm sorry, I think that would be out of the scope of goreleaser...

[aidansteele]

Fair enough! I don’t mean to question your judgment (as you’ve obviously done a good job of maintaining the project!), but isn’t this pretty similar to the Homebrew Formula file, i.e. metadata that describes the built artifact for a package manager?

[caarlos0]

I don’t mean to question your judgment

haha np ;D

isn’t this pretty similar to the Homebrew Formula file

similar... yeah... guess so, AFAIK apt requires the deb files, the Packages.gz and another Packages file in specific places...

The problem is that, once we add this, there is no reason to not add RPM repositories support, or even PPAs or a dozen other things... and I'm not really looking forward into maintaining that right now... haha

FWIW, Artifactory has apt support, which should be supported already (although I'm not 100% sure).

[caarlos0]

Another idea is to rewrite deb-s3 in Go (more or less like I did with nfpm), so you get rid of the toolchain problem at least :)

[aidansteele]

Good points, I can understand that. I think I’ll try rewriting it in Go as you mention and see how that goes. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions :)

[caarlos0]

np, hope you succeed on that =)

[wakatara]

goreleaser does a phenomenal job of building the distributable packages for each platform. What would make it insanely useful is if it could also manage an apt repository -- much like it currently does for Homebrew taps and Scoop.

Right now I'm achieving this using deb-s3, but this is suboptimal as:

* It's a second tool

* Requires a Ruby toolchain installed

What do you think? Is this something you would find valuable being added to goreleaser?

Care to share a write up of how you're doing this? I also am using goreleaser for homebrew and snaps releases and wanted to provide an apt repository as well.

Daryl.

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