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librett0

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Registered: 2013-05-13

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Hosting Pacman repositories on other distributions.

Quick question:  Do I need any special Arch-specific stuff to run a package repository, aside from the package building itself?

Just throwing the package and database files on any old webserver/distribution should work, no?
The plan is to add an Arch repo to our company's existing RPM and DEB repos, hosted on CentOS.
Any pitfalls to look out for?

Thanks.

fukawi2

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Re: Hosting Pacman repositories on other distributions.

The repo is just served over HTTP, so there's no problem. I used to run a local mirror rsync'ed from my ISP on CentOS no problem.

As you said, you just need to have the appropriate tools available to maintain the repo if it's your own (repoadd, makepkg etc)

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librett0

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Re: Hosting Pacman repositories on other distributions.

Sounds good.  Thanks.