Mimic a remote PKGDEST for a custom repo

rson451 · 2009-01-28 16:02:38

I find myself building more and more packages nowadays and I like to keep these packages around in a local repo for when I need them again. I'd like to have the repo moved off my local computer and on to a remote machine so that each of my machines can just reference my webserver as the custom repo. In essence what I want is for PKGDEST in makepkg.conf to be a remote folder.

Is there a script out there for this already? There's got to be some sane way of getting packages from the TUs to the repos. If not my plan was to just set a local PKGDEST on each machine, then have a cron ftp all .pkg.tar.gz files to the remote machine and delete the local copy every day. Does anyone know of a better method?

rson451 · 2009-01-30 16:57:19

No one?

Xyne · 2009-01-30 17:16:56

It would probably be trivial to add an arbitrary transfer command to makerepo. If you think this would work for you, I can try to do that.

rson451 · 2009-01-30 17:51:57

Xyne wrote:

It would probably be trivial to add an arbitrary transfer command to makerepo. If you think this would work for you, I can try to do that.

Thanks for the interest. You can try to add it if you think it will improve your software, but I'm fairly certain there are scripts to do this already. After all, the TUs and packagers must get their packages to gerolde efficiently.

There really is no need to complicate makerepo unnecessarily.

Xyne · 2009-01-30 18:12:19

Well, I'll post back here if I end up implementing it before you've slapped [SOLVED] on this thread.

What protocol are you using to transfer packages to your server? If you specify that, you might have a better chance of an ad-hoc script showing up in this thread.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-01-28 16:02:38

Mimic a remote PKGDEST for a custom repo

#2 2009-01-30 16:57:19

Re: Mimic a remote PKGDEST for a custom repo

#3 2009-01-30 17:16:56

Re: Mimic a remote PKGDEST for a custom repo

#4 2009-01-30 17:51:57

Re: Mimic a remote PKGDEST for a custom repo

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Re: Mimic a remote PKGDEST for a custom repo

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