On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 02:36:13PM -0600, Sven Semmler wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:07:51PM +0000, Unman wrote:
> > It's somewhat difficult to see exactly what's happening in Github.
> > A "foolproof" method would be to watch for update-notifications for
> > Debian templates, and rebuilding accordingly. (If you generally use
> > stable you might care to set up a "testing" template and qube for this
> > purpose.)
>
> Got two more questions:
>
> - the ubuntu templates have a file
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-contrib-r4.0.list which contains URI's
> to the qubes-os server (e.g. https://contrib.qubes-os.org/deb/r4.0/vm
> bionic main)
>
> Those don't work for me, which makes sense as Qubes can't provide
> Ubuntu binaries. Correct?
>
Yes, but I dont think my templates have that file.
Isnt it deleted as part of 09_cleanup?
> - the above though got me thinking... if I build using my own signing
> key, run a webserver on the qubes-builder VM and configure the
> firewall to allow the Ubuntu templates on my machine to connect to the
> qubes-builder VM ... then I could replace the above URI with my local
> qubes-builder VM IP and 'apt update' should pick it up - right?
>
> There is probably another file that I need to create for this to work
> ("Release file")?
>
Indeed you can do this - use reprepro to create the relevant files in
your repo, and serve it with a tiny web server.
> Thanks!
>
> PS: I know Unman is doing all this work and that's awsome ... I could just
> use his binaries ... but where is the fun it that ;-)
>
> /Sven
>
Keep having fun.
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