What?

A bunch of scripts to build packages for Arch Linux. Plus a server and CLI tool for sharing and deploying packages.

Why?

When you are running more than one server under Arch Linux you may need a shared repository with some custom packages. And this is it!

Features

• Repeatable build in a clean container environment;
• Build from a directory, from a tarball, fetching an URL (from AUR for instance);
• The remote server keeps the packages database steady and solid;
• A CLI tool which allows to run these actions on a remote server:
  • List all branches;
  • Create new branch;
  • List packages in a branch;
  • Download a package;
  • Upload packages with replacing the old ones;
  • Remove packages (branch removal is not implemented for the safety reasons);
  • Update the server (for debug and development purposes);

WARNING! The server does not support any authorization!

Requirements

For build packages:

• /etc/makepkg.conf (copies into container);
• /etc/pacman.conf (copies into container);
• podman
• sudo
• aria2c or wget or curl

For the deploy server and CLI tool:

• python-aiohttp
• python-pyzstd
• python-requests
• python-systemd

Server setup

1. Create an unprivileged user, arpm for instance.

2. Create a config ~/.config/arpm.conf:

    [server]
    host=0.0.0.0
    port=32475
   

   Where host and port - address and port to listen on;

3. Create a systemd unit:

   [Unit]
   Description=ArchLinux repository and packages server
   
   [Service]
   Type=notify
   User=arpm
   Group=arpm
   ExecStart=/usr/bin/arpm server -n /srv/archlinux/x86_64
   Restart=always
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   

   Where /srv/archlinux/x86_64 - is the packages root directory.

4. Run the server:

   systemctl enable --now arpm

CLI tool usage

1. Create a config ~/.config/arpm.conf:

   [server]
   host=example.com
   port=32475
   

   Where example.com is the address of the server.

2. Build a package:

   ./build.sh 'https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/google-chrome.tar.gz'

3. Create a new branch on server, custom for instance:

   ./arpm.py branch mk custom

4. Upload package to the server:

   ./arpm.py pkg custom put out/*.pkg.tar.zstd

5. Append the URL with a new branch to the /etc/pacman.conf:

   [custom]
   Server = http://example.com/archlinux/$arch/$repo
   

License

GPL.