Repository Management with Aptly
Explore how to create and manage Debian repositories using Aptly. Learn to add packages, create snapshots, publish repositories with GPG signing, and update published data effectively. This lesson helps you master repository setup, integrity checks, and advanced Aptly features for efficient Debian package management.
Creating an Aptly repository
Aptly is part of the standard Debian and Ubuntu repositories, so usually we can install it easily:
$ apt install aptly
Then, we can create our first Aptly repository with a command like this:
$ aptly repo create -distribution=bullseye \-component=main \-architectures=amd64,all \my-repo
Here, my-repo is the name for our fictitious repository.
By default, Aptly creates a ＄HOME/.aptly.conf configuration file
in JSON format and puts all of its files in the ＄HOME/.aptly/
directory. We can specify an alternative config file with
aptly -config=<yourpath> <subcommand>.
Adding a Debian package to a repository
We can add Debian packages to our repo with:
$ aptly repo add <repo-name> <.deb-file>
So in our example, this might be:
$ aptly repo add