On 11/4/20 3:32 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
As a person with the FreeBSD background, I'm used to building my own
packages with the exact build options I need (those include exim, nginx,
samba, clamav and many others). FreeBSD has a good infrastructure for
this (ports tree, poudriere et al.)
Where can I learn to do a similar thing for Debian? I'd like to have my
own package repository which:
1. Keeps my local patches and configure/build options.
2. Gets updated and recompiled when the main Debian repository gets updated.
3. Can have a higher preference for my Debian systems than the default Debian
repositories.
I know this can be done because I use some vendor repositories (zabbix,
consul etc) but I need the tools and knowledge.
What would you advise me to read?
That's actually a good question and I'd like to see a how-to myself.
BTW, used to build FreeBSD packages at the time of FeeBSD 4.5-4.11 :)
I personally use reprepro for my repository, but the packages I build
manually with cowbuilder/pbuilder and then upload to the repository
managed by reprepro.
For 1. and 2. one option would be a gitlab instance with a CI pipeline (
or just a git repo with post-receive hooks ) which would rebuild the
source package if the new version is pushed to the repository. Once this
is done, uploading to reprepro isn't a big deal I guess. Still you might
need manual intervention if you sign the packages.
Best,
Alex
