Creating a TRIVIAL DEBIAN REPOSITORY
This howto shows the way to create a trivial debian repository. Just a simple collection of deb package files.
There are two debian repository types: automatic and trivial.
Automatic repos are more complex. We are going to deal with trivial ones.
A trivial repository is composed of a root directory and one or more subdirectories.
No database server is needed.
This trivial repository is good enough to host a few packages, e.g creating a repo with your /var/cache/apt/archives deb packages and burn a cd or store them in a removible drive.
Trivial repos do not follow the standard debian repo directory structure, so we will have to specify the exact path in sources.list file.
CREATING MY TRIVIAL REPO STRUCTURE:
Our repo will consist of MyRepo root directory with binary subdirectory.
$mkdir -p /path/to/MyRepo
$cd /path/to/MyRepo
$mkdir binary
We place there the deb packages our repo will provide.
I.e: we copy packages from the apt cache:
$rsync -vP /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /path/to/MyRepo/binary
$cd .. # we move to repo root directory.
CREATE PACKAGES CONFIGURATION FILE
