[elbe-devel] [PATCH] quickstart: add section about custom repos with reprepro

[Yegor Yefremov]

Hi Philipp,

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Philipp Rosenberger
<p.rosenberger at linutronix.de> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Rosenberger <p.rosenberger at linutronix.de>
> ---
>  docs/quickstart.txt | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 65 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/quickstart.txt b/docs/quickstart.txt
> index 326a831..b14f4b1 100644
> --- a/docs/quickstart.txt
> +++ b/docs/quickstart.txt
> @@ -314,3 +314,68 @@ $ cd program
>  $ elbe pbuilder build --project `cat ../fun.prj` --output ../out
>  ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> +Custom Repository
> +-----------------
> +
> +You might have your own packages which should be installed into your image. This
> +can be done with a custom repository. You can use
> +link:https://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/[reprepro] to create your own
> +repository.
> +
> +To create your own repository with reprepro you need only the `distributions`
> +configuration file. For an amd64 and source repository for Debian jessie it
> +might look as follows:
> +
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +Origin: mylocal
> +Label: mylocal
> +Suite: stable
> +Codename: jessie
> +Architectures: amd64 source
> +Components: main
> +Description: my local repo
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Now place the `distributions` file in a `conf` named directory.
> +
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +repo/
> +├── conf
> +│   └── distributions
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +To include packages in your repository you might use the following comand from
> +inside the `repo` directory:
> +
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +$ reprepro include jessie ../path/to/your/*.changes
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +To use this repository from ELBE you need a webserver. Simply place the
> +repository inside the document root of your webserver.
> +
> +If the webser is running on the same machine as the initvm you can use the
> +following to access the repository:
> +
> +[source,xml]
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +<url-list>
> +       <url>
> +               <binary>http://LOCALMACHINE/repo/ jessie main</binary>
> +               <source>http://LOCALMACHINE/repo/ jessie main</source>
> +               <key>http://LOCALMACHINE/repo/key.pub</key>
> +       </url>
> +</url-list>
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +ELBE replaces the string `LOCALMACHINE` with the ip address of your machine. If
> +you use an external machine as webserver you need to replace `LOCALMACHINE` with
> +the name or the ip of it.
> +
> +You need to sign your repository (see `SignWith` in the
> +link:https://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/reprepro.1.html[reprepro manpage]), or
> +you may set <noauth/> in your xml file. If you don't sign your repository you
> +don't need the `<key>` tag.
> +
> +Now you can install packages from your custom repository the same way you can
> +install from any other repository.

reprepro is not that flexible. AFAIK you cannot manage both jessie and
stretch in one reprepro instance. Have you already tried freight?

See this readme: https://github.com/visionsystemsgmbh/vscom-elbe

Yegor