[Gambas-user] URGENT request to people of Gambas stable PPA

[Willy Raets]

On ma, 2015-03-16 at 11:28 -0300, Sebastian Kulesz wrote:
> Hey there!

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for the quick response.
> 
> I haven't pushed the update to the stable ppa yet. Just last night I
> updated the bleeding edge ppa and I would like to wait a day or two to
> see if any issues arise. 

Nice
> 
> I can not hold the update because of one user. Think that there are a
> lot of people waiting for the new features and fixes this release
> brings. 
> 
> From what you wrote, I assume you are using a Debian based distro.
> Would it be possible for you to download a local copy of the
> repository instead of compiling Gambas?

I used wget to make a local copy of your stable PPA onto my local disk.

Now, if I understand it all well, I would:

1. Have to push this local copy of your PPA to our Debian server 
2. I would have to install reprepo on the Debian server and somehow tell
it where the repo is (so configure it).
3. I would need to configure apache to publish the repo.
4. On the clients edit the sources.list to point to the repo

Are these the correct steps and in the right order to take?

> 
> If I can be of any help let me know!

I will probably need your help.

I have been looking into reprepo for several times over the past few
years, but never actually tried setting up a repo.

Most documentation comes with a lot of bash scripts that are very
specific for the shown example, or deal with having reprepo make
packages from source and so on. None of the docs seems to aim at why I
intend to do, set up an Ubuntu repo on a Debian server, with the
packages ripped from a PPA.

I have the feeling that making the folder structure and packages for the
repo is not needed if ripping an existing ppa from its packages and
folder structure.
That should make the whole setup much eazier, but what to configure and
what not in reprepo for this situation is a bit unclear to me.
But somehow I have the feeling that even a lot of what needs to be
configured is already in place when copying an existing PPA.

I find it very hard to find documentation that makes sense to me and
this specific situation.

I have like a dozen of bookmarks in my browser on reprepro for a few
years now (add new ones when I find them), reread them like every half
year and still never managed to completely wrap my head around setting
up a repo :)

So any help is appreciated.

-- 
Kind regards,

Willy (aka gbWilly)

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