Howto create your own Repositoy

How to create your own repository in PCLinuxOS
1. Create own place for repository.

For example i created repository folder in home folder

2. Create folder which will contained ... .rpm files, folder must have a a prefix " RPMS. "

For example inside repository folder I created folder RPMS.32bit.

3. Put rpm files inside RPMS.folder_name.

My example loks like this: home └── user └── repository ├── RPMS.32bit ├── libopenssl_1.0.0-arch32-1.0.2g-1pclos2016.i586.rpm ├── libopenssl-arch32-devel-1.0.2g-1pclos2016.i586.rpm └── openssl-arch32-1.0.2g-1pclos2016.i586.rpm 4. Open terminal / konsole and copy and paste this line, then edit path to your repository and click Enter

genbasedir --flat --bloat --progress /home/your_name_user/repository 32bit Should look something like this:

$ genbasedir --flat --bloat --progress /home/user/repository 32bit Components: 32bit Processing pkglists... 32bit 0003/0003 [done] Processing srclists... [done] Updating component releases... 32bit [done] Creating global release file... [done] Appending MD5Sum... 32bit All your base are belong to us!!! [done] directory structure inside repository folder looks now this $ tree . ├── base │  ├── pkglist.32bit │  ├── pkglist.32bit.bz2 │  ├── release │  └── release.32bit └── RPMS.32bit ├── libopenssl_1.0.0-arch32-1.0.2g-1pclos2016.i586.rpm ├── libopenssl-arch32-devel-1.0.2g-1pclos2016.i586.rpm └── openssl-arch32-1.0.2g-1pclos2016.i586.rpm ______________________ 2 directories, 7 files

'Now you have ready repository ! :D'

TIP: More option for genbasedir you can find with command

genbasedir --help

TIP: For .src.rpm files you can create folder with prefix SRPMS., for examle: SRPMS.32bit

How add repository to Synaptic ?
1. Open Synaptic

2. Click: Settings --> Repositories

3. At the bottom, click New

4. Fill in empty fields.

For example I completed like this: URI:          file:/home/user/ Distribution:   repository Section(s):    32bit

TIP: If you trying add local repository on hard drive, path should begin like file:/home/user/ If you have repository on the web, path should begin like http:/ /server/path

5 Click OK (the window closes and the changes should be saved). You can check the active list, click: Settings --> Repositories (in Synaptic)

6. In the upper left corner inside Synaptic, you have the icon Refresh, click it to refresh and load new repositories.

7. '''Ready ! :D'''

How refresh own repository ?
If you want add or remove .rpm files from repository, You need refresh database.

1. You use the command as before, for example:

genbasedir --flat --bloat --progress /home/your_name_user/repository 32bit

2. Ready, your repository database is refreshed, now close Synaptic if you have open, then you can open Synaptic again, click Refresh icon and use.

TIPS:
1. If you want refresh repository one command ... - create a script in /usr/local/bin/ with name uprep if $EUID -ne 0 ; then echo " Warning: This script must be run as root! " echo " Try again as root, the end. " fi apt-get clean; genbasedir --flat --bloat --progress /home/user/repository 32bit ; apt-get update - change path and section name if you have other, - give script execution rights - and ready, run command from terminal to check: /usr/local/bin/uprep or just uprep
 * 1) !/bin/bash

2. Read also: http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/web-apt-rep.html http://apt-rpm.org/reposetup-native.shtml#simple-repo

Date of publication: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 Day update: Sun, 26 Jun 2016