Aptly::Watcher

Configures Aptly in a application centric manner, and watches a set of folders for incoming Debian packages.

The idea is that you setup a user on a server and push packages over SSH to the folder relating to your repo using password-less certificate based login.

Please note: this does not publish repositories in the manner recommended by the Aptly developers, which is to publish immutable snapshots rather than repositories themselves. However, personally I found this method convoluted and too sluggish for the fast release cycles I'm used to. It seems such a method would be perfect for serving mirrors however.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'aptly-watcher'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install aptly-watcher

First you need to create a config file as such (we parse tildes to ENV['HOME']):

---
:distrib:      myapp                  # the distribution (or the name of your app)
:repos:                               # the repos to create and publish
  - stable
  - testing
:log:          ~/watcher.log          # use '-' for STDOUT, false to disable
:redis_log:    aptly:watcher:log      # the redis list to log into, set as false to disable
:conf:         ~/aptly.conf           # the location of the aptly conf file
:pidfile:      ~/aptly-watcher.pid    # the location of the aptly-watcher pidfile
:incoming_dir: ~/incoming             # the base incoming directory
:user:         aptly                  # the user to own the aptly directory after adding/publishing
:group:        aptly                  # the group to own the aptly directory after adding/publishing

Then you can run the watcher with the config file:

$ aptly-watcher -c config.yml

This will:

• create the repositories (if they don't exist)
• publish the repository for the first time
• create the folders to watch (if they don't exist)
  • ~/incoming/stable
  • ~/incoming/testing
• start watching for files added to the folders

Every time a file is added to one of the watched folders:

• the file is added to the relative repository (i.e. ~/incoming/stable goes to stable)
• the repository is published again

You will then be able to access your repos via apt like so:

deb http://debian.example.com/ myapp stable testing # OR
#deb http://debian.example.com/ myapp stable        # OR
#deb http://debian.example.com/ myapp testing

Files added to the folders will immediately be available in the repository.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/AutogrowSystems/aptly-watcher/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request