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--- wiki:aptly [2017/07/04 22:28] – [OAR repo management script] neyron
+++ wiki:aptly [2017/07/04 22:48] – [Repositories setup] neyron
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-See:
+===== OAR's Debian repositories setup =====
+For a list of the existing management tools for Debian packages, see:
   * https://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository
-As of Aug 2015, reprepro is used on oar-archive/oar-ftp (thx plb). But:
+Til August 2015, reprepro was used to manage OAR's Debian packages (thx plb). But:
-  * it is difficult to use
+  * it was difficult to use
-  * it is difficult to maintain
+  * it was difficult to maintain
-  * it does not support multiple versions in a distribution
+  * it did not support multiple versions of a package in a distribution
-  * snapshot support it limited.
+  * snapshot support was limited.
-Aplty is a new tool that looks promising.
+We switched to Aplty.
 ==== Installing aptly ====
-  * Support for dput -> deb changes file is only available in starting from version 0.9.6
+  * Support for dput/incoming -> deb changes file is available since version 0.9.6 of aptly
     * https://github.com/smira/aptly/issues/71
     * http://beta.aptly.info/doc/aptly/repo/include/
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-==== OAR's Debian setup ====
+==== Repositories setup ====
-OAR's Debian repo is managed with the following script:
+OAR's Debian repos are managed with the following script:
 https://github.com/oar-team/oar-aptly/blob/master/oar-aptly.sh
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 </code>
+This allows us to places packages in a local repo for testing/local distrubtions before considering uploading them to the official Debian repositories:
+  * sid -> sid_beta
+  * jessie-backports -> jessie-backports_beta
+  * wheezy-backports -> whezzy-backports_beta
+Also we eventually keep mirrors or snapshots repos of the Debian official repositories, with OAR's packages inside only thanks to filters.
 === Issues to follow ===
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-==== Some other notes about the use of aptly ====
+===== Some other notes about the use of aptly =====
 These are examples of aptly commands, if manual actions are required.
 <code bash>