Hello all, I have been preparing Ubuntu releases for CMake on our own APT repository for several months now. We did this by preparing our own repository infrastructure - we have a machine that builds packages, and a machine that hosts an Aptly instance and pushes the repository to our web server. However, all of these things had a lot of manual steps to set up and use, and I'm wondering how Debian handles this problem. Here are some of my questions:
1. What software do the official Debian repositories use? Do they use Aptly or reprepro or something else? Is there a downloadable OS image which comes with this pre-set up? Does it run on a cron job or does it have some sort of continuous monitoring? (We have ours run on a cron job every 10 minutes.) 2. According to https://wiki.debian.org/BuilddSetup, there seems to be a distinction between the build broker (wanna-build) and the build workers (buildd). Do either of these roles have their own OS images one can download? 3. I understand that source packages are signed by developers before being sent to the build farm, but what about the binary packages built by the build farm and uploaded to the repository? Do the build farm servers have their own GPG keys? Does the repository server recognize these keys? Thanks in advance, all this info would be helpful for me as I expand our Ubuntu build infrastructure. Kyle
