Open markusbkk opened 1 year ago
See distri help
, specifically distri export
, and possibly also distri mirror
.
For installing a package, distri only needs the squashfs file itself (e.g. i3-amd64-4.18.1-12.squashfs
) and the accompanying metadata file (i3-amd64-4.18.1-12.meta.textproto
). Just make them available via HTTP, with any webserver you want. That’s all distri export
does*.
For use-cases like debugfs
, you also need a meta.binaryproto
that combines the metadata of all packages. That’s what distri mirror
produces. But if all you need is installing packages, you can skip this step.
[] For performance, you can optionally serve the .squashfs files gzip-compressed (or zstd once #77 is done). distri export
serves these files if you manually create them (e.g. using `parallel gzip -9 --keep ::: .squashfs`), but if you use a different HTTP server you probably need to enable that explicitly.
See
distri help
, specificallydistri export
, and possibly alsodistri mirror
.For installing a package, distri only needs the squashfs file itself (e.g.
i3-amd64-4.18.1-12.squashfs
) and the accompanying metadata file (i3-amd64-4.18.1-12.meta.textproto
). Just make them available via HTTP, with any webserver you want. That’s alldistri export
does*.For use-cases like
debugfs
, you also need ameta.binaryproto
that combines the metadata of all packages. That’s whatdistri mirror
produces. But if all you need is installing packages, you can skip this step.[] For performance, you can optionally serve the .squashfs files gzip-compressed (or zstd once #77 is done).
distri export
serves these files if you manually create them (e.g. using `parallel gzip -9 --keep ::: .squashfs`), but if you use a different HTTP server you probably need to enable that explicitly.
Awesome! Sounds fairly easy.
I assume I can create my own frontend too, by using distri-repobrowser as an example
Will try all of that tonight when I get back from my day job.
Just curious. If I wanted to set up a local package repository with custom packages not in the official repo, how would I best go about setting this up?