Creating a Debian Repository

Below are instructions for creating your own Debian repository. The instructions are based on repository-howto.en.html

REPO_DIR={pick some location} mkdir $REPO_DIR mkdir $REPO_DIR/binary mkdir $REPO_DIR/source cp *.deb *.ddeb $REPO_DIR/binary cd $REPO_DIR dpkg-scanpackages binary /dev/null | gzip -9c > binary/Packages.gz dpkg-scansources source /dev/null | gzip -9c > source/Sources.gz

Using the Debian repository you just created

One needs to add a new file to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory. For instance a new file called mariadb.list

# sergey's MariaDB repository # deb file:///home/psergey/testrepo binary/ deb-src file:///home/psergey/testrepo source/

after which one can run

apt-get update # Let apt learn about the new repository apt-get install mariadb-server

and collect bugs :-).

apt-get install will spray output of scripts and servers all over /var/log. It is also possible to set DEBIAN_SCRIPT_DEBUG=1 to get some (not all) of it to stdout.

Cleaning up after failed installation

Run

dpkg --get-selections | grep mariadb dpkg --get-selections | grep mysql

to see what is installed, and then

dpkg --purge <packages>

until the former produces empty output. Note: after some failures, /etc/mysql and /var/lib/mysql are not cleaned and still need to be removed manually.

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