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": ""
    }
  },
  "enableMetricsEndpoint": false,
  "logLevel": "debug",
  "logFormat": "default",
  "serveInAPIMode": false
}

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)
• enableMetricsEndpoint specifies whether the metrics endpoint should be enabled or disabled when running api serve (see misc API)
• logLevel specifies the log level, valid values are debug, info, warn and error, only has full effect with log format set to json, it’s recommended to leave at default value when log level is default
• logFormat specifies the log format to use, can be default or json, when format is json all logs have a time key with timestamps in RFC3339 format and a level key with the log level
• serveInAPIMode enables serving published repos according to configured FileSystemPublishEndpoints while running aptly in the api mode. If there are no FileSystemPublishEndpoints, it serves public/ subdirectory of aptly’s root. For example, if you have FileSystemPublishEndpoints configured as follows then the contents of /srv/publishes are accessible via http://aptlyhost/repos/bootstrap/ and the contents of /opt/another via http://aptlyhost/repos/some_other/ accordingly. If FileSystemPublishEndpoints are not configured, the default publish location is accessible via http://aptlyhost/repos/-/.

"FileSystemPublishEndpoints": {
    "bootstrap": {
      "rootDir": "/srv/publishes",
     ... other params
    },
    "some_other": {
      "rootDir": "/opt/another",
     ... other params
    }
}

aptly would use HTTP proxy configured in HTTP_PROXY environment variable.