Configuration

aptly looks for configuration file first in ~/.aptly.conf then in /etc/aptly.conf and, if no config file found, new one is created in home directory. If -config= flag is specified, aptly would use config file at specified location. Also aptly needs root directory for database, package and published repository storage. If not specified, directory defaults to ~/.aptly, it will be created if missing.

Configuration files do not cascade. The file that gets loaded must contain all configurations for a given aptly instance.

Configuration file is stored in JSON format (default values shown below):

{
  "rootDir": "$HOME/.aptly",
  "downloadConcurrency": 4,
  "downloadSpeedLimit": 0,
  "architectures": [],
  "dependencyFollowSuggests": false,
  "dependencyFollowRecommends": false,
  "dependencyFollowAllVariants": false,
  "dependencyFollowSource": false,
  "dependencyVerboseResolve": false,
  "gpgDisableSign": false,
  "gpgDisableVerify": false,
  "gpgProvider": "gpg",
  "downloadSourcePackages": false,
  "skipLegacyPool": true,
  "ppaDistributorID": "ubuntu",
  "ppaCodename": "",
  "FileSystemPublishEndpoints": {
    "test": {
      "rootDir": "/opt/aptly-publish",
      "linkMethod": "copy",
      "verifyMethod": "md5"
    }
  },
  "S3PublishEndpoints": {
    "test": {
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "bucket": "repo",
      "endpoint": "",
      "awsAccessKeyID": "",
      "awsSecretAccessKey": "",
      "prefix": "",
      "acl": "public-read",
      "storageClass": "",
      "encryptionMethod": "",
      "plusWorkaround": false,
      "disableMultiDel": false,
      "forceSigV2": false,
      "debug": false
    }
  },
  "SwiftPublishEndpoints": {
    "test": {
      "container": "repo",
      "osname": "",
      "password": "",
      "prefix": "",
      "authurl": "",
      "tenant": "",
      "tenantid": "",
      "domain": "",
      "domainid": "",
      "tenantdomain": "",
      "tenantdomainid": ""
    }
  }
}

Options:

• rootDir is root of directory storage to store database (rootDir/db), downloaded packages (rootDir/pool) and published repositories (rootDir/public)
• downloadConcurrency is a number of parallel download threads to use when downloading packages
• downloadSpeedLimit is a limit on download bandwidth used by aptly in kbytes per second, 0 means unlimited
• architectures is a list of architectures to process; if left empty defaults to all available architectures; could be overridden with option -architectures
• dependencyFollowSuggests: follow contents of Suggests: field when processing dependencies for the package
• dependencyFollowRecommends: follow contents of Recommends: field when processing dependencies for the package
• dependencyFollowAllVariants: when dependency looks like package-a | package-b, follow both variants always
• dependencyFollowSource: follow dependency from binary package to source package
• dependencyVerboseResolve: print detailed logs while resolving dependencies 1.1.0
• gpgDisableSign: don’t sign published repositories with gpg, also can be disabled on per-repo basis using -skip-signing flag when publishing
• gpgDisableVerify: don’t verify remote mirrors with gpg, also can be disabled on per-mirror basis using -ignore-signatures flag when creating and updating mirrors
• gpgProvider: implementation of PGP signing/validation - gpg for external gpg utility or internal to use Go internal implementation
• downloadSourcePackages: if enabled, all mirrors created would have flag set to download source packages; this setting could be controlled on per-mirror basis with -with-sources flag
• skipLegacyPool: in aptly up to version 1.0.0, package files were stored in internal package pool with MD5-dervied path, since 1.1.0 package pool layout was changed; if option is enabled, aptly stops checking for legacy paths; by default option is enabled for new aptly installations and disabled when upgrading from older versions 1.1.0
• ppaDistributorID & ppaCodename specifies parameters for short PPA url expansion, if left blank they default to output of lsb_release command
• FileSystemPublishEndpoints is configuration of local filesystem publishing endpoints (see custom filesystem publishing) 1.1.0
• S3PublishEndpoints is a configuration of Amazon S3 publishing endpoints (see publishing to S3)
• SwiftPublishEndpoints describes OpenStack Swift publishing parameters (see publishing to Swift)

aptly would use HTTP proxy configured in HTTP_PROXY environment variable.