reprepro Cookbook

Provides custom resources that set up an APT repository suitable for using the reprepro tool to manage distributions and components.

See the reprepro documentation for more information about reprepro itself, including the man(1) page in the package http://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/

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Requirements

Platforms

• Debian/Ubuntu

Chef

• Chef 15.3+

Cookbooks

• nginx
• apache2 You'll need to generate the PGP key separately and provide it as resource properties or manage it before converging the repository resource.

Resources

• reprepro_repository
• reprepro_apache
• reprepro_nginx
• reprepro_deb

Migration

This cookbook no longer ships recipes or attributes. See migration.md for the breaking change from node['reprepro'] attributes and reprepro::default recipes to resource properties.

Repository

Create a repository by declaring reprepro_repository directly.

reprepro_repository 'default' do
  fqdn 'apt.example.com'
  repo_dir '/srv/apt'
  incoming '/srv/apt_incoming'
  description 'APT Repository for our packages'
  codenames %w(noble jammy)
  allow ['unstable>sid', 'stable>squeeze']
  pgp_email 'packages@example.com'
  pgp_fingerprint 'PGP Fingerprint for the key'
  pgp_public "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\n-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\n"
  pgp_private "-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----\n-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----\n"
  pulls(
    'name' => 'noble',
    'from' => 'noble',
    'component' => 'main'
  )
  architectures %w(amd64 i386 all source)
end

Web Servers

Serve the repository with Apache or Nginx.

reprepro_apache 'apt_repo' do
  fqdn 'apt.example.com'
  repo_dir '/srv/apt'
  pgp_email 'packages@example.com'
end

reprepro_nginx 'apt_repo' do
  fqdn 'apt.example.com'
  repo_dir '/srv/apt'
end

Package Management

Add or remove .deb files.

reprepro_deb '/tmp/example_1.0.0_amd64.deb' do
  distribution 'noble'
  action :add
end

Contributors

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Backers

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