aptly publish repo

Publishes local repository directly, bypassing snapshot creation step. Published repositories appear under rootDir/public directory. Valid GPG key is required for publishing.

Usage:

$ aptly publish repo <name> [[<endpoint:>]<prefix>]

Params:

• name is a local repo name that should be published
• endpoint is an optional endpoint reference. Without endpoint, repository would be published to local file system. In order to publish to Amazon S3, use endpoint name s3:<name>:, where endpoint name is configured as S3 publishing endpoint in configuration file, for OpenStack Swift, use endpoint swift:<name> (Swift configuration)
• prefix is an optional prefix for publishing, if not specified, repository would be published to the root of publiс directory. prefix could be single directory like ppa or part of the tree like ppa/android. prefix shouldn’t contain .., and names dists and pool are not accepted. Empty prefix would be converted to ..

Flags:

• -batch: run GPG with detached tty (useful when running from crontab)
• -component="": component name to publish; it is taken from local repository default, otherwise it defaults to main (for multi-component publishing, separate components with commas)
• -distribution="": distribution name to publish; guessed from local repository default distribution
• -force-overwrite: overwrite packages files in the pool even if content is different (see also duplicate packages)
• -gpg-key="": GPG key ID to use when signing the release, if not specified default key is used
• -keyring="": GPG keyring to use (instead of default)
• -label="": value for Label: field
• -origin="": value for Origin: field
• -acquire-by-hash: provide index files by hash if unique 1.2.0
• -notautomatic="": value for NotAutomatic: field 1.1.0
• -butautomaticupgrades="": value for ButAutomaticUpgrades: field 1.1.0
• -passphrase="": GPG passphrase to unlock private key (possibly insecure)
• -passphrase-file="": GPG passphrase file to unlock private key (possibly insecure)
• -secret-keyring="": GPG secret keyring to use (instead of default)
• -skip-contents: don’t generate Contents indexes (setting would be stored permanently for published repository)
• -skip-signing: don’t sign Release files with GPG

If architectures are limited (with config architectures or option -architectures), only mentioned architectures would be published, otherwise aptly will publish all architectures in the snapshot.

It is not allowed to publish two repositories or snapshots to the same prefix and distribution.

When local repository changes, published repository could be updated in-place using command aptly publish update.

Empty local repos could be published as well (as placeholder, for subsequent updates using aptly publish update command). When publishing empty local repos it is important to specify complete architectures list (using -architectures flag), as it can’t be changed after publishing.

Multiple component repositories should be published from several local repositories, one repository per component. In that case, command accepts several local repositories names:

$ aptly publish repo -component=main,contrib mysoft-main mysoft-contrib

Please see multiple-component publishing for more examples.

Example:

$ aptly publish repo local-repo
Signing file '/var/aptly/public/dists/squeeze/Release' with gpg, please enter your passphrase when prompted:

<<gpg asks for passphrase>>

Clearsigning file '/var/aptly/public/dists/squeeze/Release' with gpg, please enter your passphrase when prompted:

<<gpg asks for passphrase>>

Snapshot back has been successfully published.
Please setup your webserver to serve directory '/var/aptly/public' with autoindexing.
Now you can add following line to apt sources:
  deb http://your-server/ squeeze main
Don't forget to add your GPG key to apt with apt-key.