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

#!/bin/bash
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

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