Reptile 🦕.

The easiest, no-nonsense, nonfancy tool to manage Debian repositories.

This system consists of two programs: reptile and boa. reptile has to be available on $PATH on the server; boa is what you use to manage the repository. boa works through ssh.

Installation.

Install boa locally.

Assuming ~/.local/bin/ is contained in $PATH:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nitrux/reptile/master/boa > ~/.local/bin/boa
$ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/boa

Install reptile on the server.

$ ssh my-server
root@my-server # curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nitrux/reptile/master/reptile > /bin/reptile
root@my-server # chmod +x /bin/reptile

Usage.

$ boa
Usage: boa <remote> <command [args]>

command is any of:

  mk <repo>              Create a new repository.
  cp <pkg> <repo>        Add a package to a repository.
  rm <repo> [pkg]        Remove a repository or package that belongs to a repository.
  mv <pkg> <from> <to>   Move a package from a repository to another.
  mv <old> <new>         Rename a repository.
  ls [repo] [pkg]        List the contents of a repository or a package. If no
                         arguments are provided, list all repositories.

Now, you can serve your repository like this:

root@my-server # busybox httpd -vp 8000 -h /var/reptile

The path /var/reptile is where all your repositories reside. If you'd like to change that location, modify the script reptile (it's small, it won't hurt, trust me).

Issues

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