README.md

makeOfflineRepo

This repo provides a script to create a specific offline package repo for a debian-based Linux OS

Usage

Create a repo

To create an offline package repository, create a list of packages needed as in example in data/packages_list_example.txt and use a command as follows:

make_local_repo.sh --config=packages.txt --out-dir="path/to/repo/<repo_name>"

If a path path/to/repo/<repo_name> does not exist, it will be created.

For more info on options, see make_local_repo.sh --help

Enable a created repo via script

Use enable-repo.sh to move repo files to a suitable location and include to /etc/apt/sources.list:

enable-repo.sh --repo=<repo_path> --dest=<repo_store_path>

See enable-repo.sh --help for more info.

About repos created by this script

The script make_local_repo.sh creates directories repo_main (main package versions) and repo_alternative (in case there are same packages but of different version). Each directory includes subdirs amd64, all (and i386 if there are packages on the list specified like <package>:i386). So the repo tree looks like:

├── repo_alternative
│   ├── amd64
│   └── i386
└── repo_main
    ├── all
    ├── amd64
    └── i386

The repos need to be added to /etc/apt/sources.list as follows:

deb [trusted=yes] file:<absolute_local_repo_path> ./

E.g., for the tree above:

deb [trusted=yes] file:/<abs_path>/repo_main/amd64 ./
deb [trusted=yes] file:/<abs_path>/repo_main/i386 ./
deb [trusted=yes] file:/<abs_path>/repo_main/all ./
deb [trusted=yes] file:/<abs_path>/repo_alternative/amd64 ./
deb [trusted=yes] file:/<abs_path>/repo_alternative/i386 ./

TODO

• support RPM