On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 1:55 PM John Crawley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2019-11-03 11:32, Holloway Kean Ho wrote: > > > Theoretically it is possible to do this with git, but it would be > > terrifyingly ugly. > > Yes, that's some light in the dark! This is what I want to hear in this > > exploration > > voyage. Don't worry, it's mainly for exploration and satisfying curiosity. > > > > Thanks for everything. =) > > > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 10:24 AM Paul Wise <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2019-11-03 at 10:21 +0800, Holloway Kean Ho wrote: > > > > > I'm restricted due to git version control service providers. > > > > Sounds like you need to use a generic web hosting provider instead, > > then you can generate your apt repository locally and sync all the > > repository files over to the hosting provider. Theoretically it is > > possible to do this with git, but it would be terrifyingly ugly. > > I can't speak for the aesthetics, but it's very easy to create an eg > reprepro debian/ directory locally, make it into a git repo and sync it > to eg github. > https://github.com/johnraff/helium-dev-repo-exp > Apt can access the above (now obsolete) directory with the line: > deb https://johnraff.github.io/helium-dev-repo-exp/debian/ helium main > > But it's also quite easy to do with rsync and ssh.
Man, you guys are awesome! Thanks for the shedding lights! The demo exact thing I'm looking for as a reference. This is going to be a fruitful exploration. I'll try out the reprepro locally and generate a repo packaging bash script to automate things up. Thanks, all! XD Holloway
