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smira

167 karma · joined February 11, 2014

Independent Developer, DevOps, Go, Python.

http://www.aptly.info/

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smira··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
Thanks, looks really interesting!

At the moment working on REST API for aptly which should allow similar simple publishing scenarios.

smira··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
aptly can do more much more than just S3 publishing: for example snapshotting, combining packages from different sources.
smira··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
I use fpm to build aptly .deb packages, it is extremely simple to use compared to usual source package + build path.

This is a problem for Go programs, due to multiple unversioned (usually) dependencies on other Go libraries.

smira··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
It is actually available: https://github.com/aptly-dev/aptly-dev.github.io/tree/trunk

In trunk branch, the markdown under content/ folder.

smira··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
Thanks for your suggestions!
smira··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
NixOS is aiming for the same goal, I believe. NixOS is built on top of different package manager, Nix.

With aptly you're still using your favorite Debian/Ubuntu distro, installing packages with apt-get and so on.

smira··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
Sorry for my bad English.

Does this sound better:

"Linux distribution is a well-tested collection of packages that are carefully organized and supported by the vendor."

smira··on Aptly: Debian Repository Management Tool
olgeni, I thought aptly would be useful even if you use only upstream repositories: they get updates and sometimes you don't want all updates to be installed (or you would like to control exact moment to install those updates).