Ropes

This is a simple gem you can use either programmatically or via a simple utility to build apt and yum repositories from either a directory of package files, or from information you supply.

It will generate the following files:

• Releases
• Releases.gpg (if you specify a GPG key to use)
• Contents-{arch}.gz
• Packages
• Packages.gz
• Packages.bz2

As of 0.2.1, it generates only Releases, Releases.gpg, Packages and Packages.gz. This is enough to get a basic Ubuntu repository working. There is no yum support.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ropes'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ropes

Here's an example of creating a repository object, adding a few packages to it, then retrieving the various repository files. It's your reponsibility at the moment to put files in the correct places - once there's a command line tool, it'll do this for you.

repo = Ropes::Repository.new({
  :origin => "andytinycat",
  :type => :apt,
  :distribution => "precise",
  :version => "12.04",
  :architecture => "amd64",
  :components => "main",
  :description => "testing",
  :package_base => "packages"
})

repo.add_file_by_path("some_custom_package.deb")

# For amd64 files
File.open("Packages", "w") do |file|
  file.write repo.packages_file("amd64")
end

# For i386
File.open("Packages", "w") do |file|
  file.write repo.packages_file("i386")
end

File.open("Release", "w") do |file|
  file.write repo.release_file
end

File.open("Release.gpg", "w") do |file|
  file.write repo.release_file_gpg("/path/to/your/gpg.key")
end

# For amd64
File.open("Packages.gz", "w") do |file|
  file.write repo.packages_file_gz("amd64")
end

# For i386
File.open("Packages.gz", "w") do |file|
  file.write repo.packages_file_gz("amd64")
end

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request