I wrote this a long time ago as a self-challenge, as well as a resolution to a data-duplication problem that it solved. I am no longer maintaining this code.

Melai is a command-line tool to create software package repositories for APT and YUM package management tools.

This tool is a standalone tool, and should be installed wither via RubyGems:

$ gem install melai

If you'd rather install dependencies and install from source:

$ bundle install && rake install

Some prerequisites are needed, and exist currently on Debian/Ubuntu based distros.

• apt-ftparchive (Debian-style packages) - sudo apt-get install apt-utils
• createrepo (RedHat-style packages) - sudo apt-get install createrepo

Both of these external tools are needed to build the required repo metadata.

NOTE: This process cannot be run on RedHat/CentOS yet - as they do not have the tools to work with Debian-style packages.

An example:

melai -r newrepo create -p sourcepackages -u "http://mypackageserver.com/myrepo"

Another way is to initialize a config, and use that:

melai -r newrepo initconfig

This will create a file named ~/.melai.rc. Edit it to contain your values:

---
:help: false
:r: newrepo
:repos-path: newrepo
commands:
  :create:
    :pkgs-path: sourcepackages
    :url-root: "http://mypackageserver.com/myrepo"
  :list: {}
  :destroy: {}
  :p: tmpfoo
  :pkgs-path: tmpfoo
  :u: "http://mypackageserver.com/myrepo"
  :url-root: "http://mypackageserver.com/myrepo"
:list: {}
:destroy: {}

Then you can run melai create with no arguments. See here for more details.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Test your changes (rake test)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request