I am working on a project where we need to maintain several deployments of
our code. I want to set up a repostory so we can:
- Package our main code up as a .deb
- Package CPAN modules up that don't already have .deb's
- Force certain versions of packages /not/ to upgrade until we're
ready.
On apt.example.net, I have:
~apt/htdocs/binary/*.deb
On glumble.example.net, I have:
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://apt.example.net binary/
# ... normal repo's
/etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release o=Example
Pin-Priority: 900
apt-cache policy
# a bunch of 500's, then:
900 http://apt.example.net binary/ Packages
release o=Example
origin apt.example.net
The setup works for the simple cases of when we put a package up that's
newer than the one in the distro's repository, but the pinning seems to
have no effect. If I upload libfoo-perl.0.deb, it doesn't take
preference over the distro's libfoo-perl.1.deb.
I've tried a bunch of different options with pinning, but I guess I'm to
the point where I give up and ask the experts. My figurin' is that the
o=Example part is not the right thing to key on.
And while I'm at it, I might as well ask: is there a standard way of doing
authentication and encryption for the local repositories? Using "https://";
in my sources.list gives:
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found
...and I'm pretty sure I have no idea how to do authentication. Both of
these things kind of go against the spirit of an open-source repository, I
suppose. Maybe I should just do my own downloading with scp, and then the
solution is fairly complete - assuming I can get those packages to not be
overridden by the distro's packages.
Thanks for your help!
-rjk
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