I have a custom Debian repository deployed with no translation packages which I created using reprepro utility. Everytime apt-get update is run I see requests to *i18n* packages which I don't have and hence *404* is returned back to clients. This hasn't been a problem so far, but it seems like a misconfiguration issue that should be addressed. I managed to stop apt-get from downloading all translations by putting these lines (thanks to a tip similar to [this](https://askubuntu.com/questions/184665/how-apt-get-determines-when-to-download-translation-file) one) Acquire::Languages { "none"; } to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99languages I want to this to work only for my repo. I've stumbled upon similar problems with setting up repository-specific proxies. These problems have been solved with adding a repository URI before "none" but this doesn't seem to do the job for Languages options. I'll be very thankful to anyone who might recommend a proper solution. I'm using a Debian Jessie-based distribution.

I want to make a CentOS mirror with different versions of CentOS? How do I do that with reposync. I can't use rsync.

Whenever I add a new version to a reprepro repository, it forgets and deletes the older package by default. I want to keep it, so I use --keepunreferencedfiles to the config:

$ reprepro --keepunreferencedfiles includedeb stable /path/to/jjdns_0_4.5_amd64.deb 
jjdns_0.4.5_amd64.deb: component guessed as 'main'
Exporting indices...                                                                     
1 files lost their last reference.                                                       
(dumpunreferenced lists such files, use deleteunreferenced to delete them.)

Now I have jjdns_0.4.5 referenced, and jjdns_0.4.4 in the repo, but not in the index:

$ grep -A1 "Package: jjdns" dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages
Package: jjdns
Version: 0.4.5

Question: how can I add 0.4.4 back to the index? Or, even better, not remove it when uploading 0.4.5?

Seeing this message when dput'ing a package to my local reprepro instance:

...
Exporting indices...
Corrupted file list data for pool/main/q/qualys-cloud-agent/qualys-cloud-agent_2.6.0-88_all.deb
Corrupted file list data for pool/main/q/qualys-cloud-agent/qualys-cloud-agent_2.6.0-88_all.deb
Calculating packages to pull...
Installing (and possibly deleting) packages...
Exporting indices...
Deleting files no longer referenced..

I am running version 5.3.0 of reprepro on Debian buster. How do I repair (or remove) the corrupted files?

I have a reprepro 5.1.1 installation with the following conf. The idea is to mirror everything locally from Debian Stretch amd64 public mirror. "distributions": Origin: debian Codename: stretch Description: debian stretch mirror Architectures: amd64 Components: main contrib non-free Update: - debian-stretch Contents: .gz Log: /var/log/reprepro/debian/stretch.log SignWith: Origin: debian Codename: stretch-updates Description: debian stretch-updates mirror Architectures: amd64 Components: main contrib non-free Update: - debian-stretch-updates Contents: .gz Log: /var/log/reprepro/debian/stretch-updates.log SignWith: Origin: debian Codename: stretch-backports Description: debian stretch-backports mirror Architectures: amd64 Components: main contrib non-free Update: - debian-stretch-backports Contents: .gz Log: /var/log/reprepro/debian/stretch-backports.log SignWith: NotAutomatic: yes ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes "updates": Name: debian-stretch Method: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian Architectures: amd64 Suite: stretch GetInRelease: no VerifyRelease: EF0F382A1A7B6500 Name: debian-stretch-updates Method: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian Architectures: amd64 Suite: stretch-updates GetInRelease: no VerifyRelease: 7638D0442B90D010 Name: debian-stretch-backports Method: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian Architectures: amd64 Suite: stretch-backports GetInRelease: no VerifyRelease: 7638D0442B90D010 The issue is that reprepro does not mirror everything that it finds in http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch-backports/main/binary-all/Packages.gz . For example linux-headers-4.16.0-0.bpo.2-common is missing on my local mirror. But it has linux-headers-4.17*. This also goes for many other packages.

I've successfully created a Debian repository wiht reprepro by adding deb files manually with: reprepro --ask-passphrase -V includedeb jessie /tmp/debs/*.deb Now I revived new versions of the debs by the upstream. The upstream does not provide a repository. This is why I want to build my own. My question is: How to update the packages in my repository with new versions?

I've setup a local repo with reprepro, accessible via a local web server. Thus every file and dir in its file sub-tree owns to www-data:www-data. The problem is that every time I add a new package I need to use sudo, that makes all the permissions of the files involved to change, and every time I have to fix this by hand. Any clue how can I avoid this? Maybe using a sticky bit? Thanks in advance.

I'd like to install a couple of packages available from an unofficial repository, problem is the repository share many packages and an apt upgrade would replace many of the official. I know about pinning but would prefer not to use it. I think to remember something about adding a repository for only a package, did a little search online and into apt's documentation but found not much, did also some test without success, if there's a syntax to add only few packages from a repository that would be perfect. Alternatively I'm thinking about using cron and reprepro (or whatever is used nowadays to create a repository) to only mirror the few packages I need, anything already existing like that?

On a private Debian package server, I accidentally did a reprepro update without the --restrict option, which updated all packages. Not realizing this, I then created a new distribution and populated it with all those updated packages. How can I undo the mistake? For example, can I use reprepro copy to copy all packages of an older, correct distribution over to the new distribution? How can I undo the changes to the database? References: - http://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/reprepro.1.html - http://www.red-bean.com/doc/reprepro/manual.html#propagation - https://serverfault.com/questions/489504/using-snapshots-with-reprepro-to-enable-rollbacks

I'm using simple-cdd to create a Debian cd with only the packages I need for a re/installation of my system, but I'm facing some difficulties, namely, of the list of packages that I want to be installed on the CD, and therefore installed on the system, there are some that are not present at the time debian-cd is called by simple-cdd. I've managed to isolate the issue in reprepro not solving the dependencies in a sensible manner. For example, I have set terminator package to be installed on the cd using the myprofile.packages file, it is missing at the time debian-cd is called as can be seen on the build-debian-cd.log: stdout: Finished: 841 packages placed stdout: purging /home/braiam/laptop-cdd/tmp/extras stdout: simple-cdd: extra files for simple-cdd stdout: ERROR: missing required packages from profile list: network-manager-gnome terminator xfce4-appfinder xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin xfce4-session xfce4-settings xfwm4 sort_deps.amd64.log reports the following about terminator package: Dependency tree of `terminator' ... Depends: gconf2 Depends: python-dbus Depends: python-gobject Depends: python-gtk2 (>= 2.14.0) Depends: python-vte Depends: python Recommends: python-gnome2 Recommends: python-keybinder Recommends: python-notify Recommends: xdg-utils Looking at list, line "terminator" + Trying to add terminator... terminator Dep: gconf2 soft_depend 0 gconf2 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 gconf2 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 gconf2 not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 gconf2 Dep: gconf-service (= 3.2.6-4) soft_depend 0 gconf-service is included already, acceptable version 3.2.6-4 gconf2 Dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 gconf2 Dep: libgconf-2-4 (>= 3.2.5) soft_depend 0 libgconf-2-4 is included already, acceptable version 3.2.6-4 gconf2 Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 gconf2 Dep: libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) soft_depend 0 libxml2 is included already, acceptable version 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1 gconf2 Dep: (OR default-dbus-session-bus dbus-session-bus ) soft_depend 0 default-dbus-session-bus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 dbus-session-bus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 default-dbus-session-bus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 default-dbus-session-bus not already installed dbus-session-bus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 dbus-session-bus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 default-dbus-session-bus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 default-dbus-session-bus not already installed dbus-session-bus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 dbus-session-bus not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 gconf2 failed, couldn't satisfy OR dep gconf2 Dep: psmisc soft_depend 0 psmisc not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 psmisc not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 psmisc not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 psmisc Dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 psmisc Dep: libselinux1 (>= 1.32) soft_depend 0 libselinux1 is included already, acceptable version 2.6-3 psmisc Dep: libtinfo5 (>= 6) soft_depend 0 libtinfo5 is included already, acceptable version 6.0+20160917-1 gconf2 failed, couldn't satisfy OR dep gconf2 Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 terminator failed, couldn't satisfy OR dep terminator Dep: python-dbus soft_depend 0 python-dbus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-dbus not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-dbus not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-dbus Dep: python (= 2.7~) soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-dbus Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-dbus Dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 python-dbus Dep: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14) soft_depend 0 libdbus-1-3 is included already, acceptable version 1.10.12-1 python-dbus Dep: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78) soft_depend 0 libdbus-glib-1-2 is included already, acceptable version 0.108-1 python-dbus Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 terminator failed, couldn't satisfy OR dep terminator Dep: python-gobject soft_depend 0 python-gobject not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gobject not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gobject not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-gobject Dep: python-gi (>= 3.22.0-1) soft_depend 0 python-gi not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gi not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gi (>= 3.22.0-1) not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-gi Dep: python (= 2.7~) soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-gi Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-gi Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-gi Dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 python-gi Dep: libffi6 (>= 3.0.4) soft_depend 0 libffi6 is included already, acceptable version 3.2.1-6 python-gi Dep: libgirepository-1.0-1 (>= 1.44.0) soft_depend 0 libgirepository-1.0-1 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 libgirepository-1.0-1 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 libgirepository-1.0-1 (>= 1.44.0) not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 libgirepository-1.0-1 Dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 libgirepository-1.0-1 Dep: libffi6 (>= 3.0.4) soft_depend 0 libffi6 is included already, acceptable version 3.2.1-6 libgirepository-1.0-1 Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.50.0) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 python-gi Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.1) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 python-gi Dep: gir1.2-glib-2.0 (>= 1.39.0) soft_depend 0 gir1.2-glib-2.0 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 gir1.2-glib-2.0 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 gir1.2-glib-2.0 (>= 1.39.0) not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 gir1.2-glib-2.0 Dep: libgirepository-1.0-1 (>= 1.45.4) soft_depend 0 libgirepository-1.0-1 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 libgirepository-1.0-1 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 OR relationship already satisfied by parent libgirepository-1.0-1 (>= 1.45.4) gir1.2-glib-2.0 Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.50.0) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 python-gobject Dep: python-gobject-2 soft_depend 0 python-gobject-2 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gobject-2 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gobject-2 not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-gobject-2 Dep: python (>= 2.7) soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-gobject-2 Dep: python (= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 python-gobject-2 Dep: libffi6 (>= 3.0.4) soft_depend 0 libffi6 is included already, acceptable version 3.2.1-6 python-gobject-2 Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.1) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 terminator failed, couldn't satisfy OR dep terminator Dep: python-gtk2 (>= 2.14.0) soft_depend 0 python-gtk2 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gtk2 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gtk2 (>= 2.14.0) not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-gtk2 Dep: python (= 2.7) soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-gtk2 Dep: python-numpy (>= 1:1.10.0~b1) soft_depend 0 python-numpy not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-numpy not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-numpy (>= 1:1.10.0~b1) not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-numpy Dep: python (= 2.7~) soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-numpy Dep: python2.7 soft_depend 0 python2.7 is included already, acceptable version 2.7.12-7 python-numpy Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-numpy Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-numpy Dep: (OR libblas3 libblas3 ) soft_depend 0 libblas3 is included already, acceptable version 3.6.1-2 python-numpy Dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 python-numpy Dep: (OR liblapack3 liblapack3 ) soft_depend 0 liblapack3 is included already, acceptable version 3.6.1-2 python-gtk2 Dep: python-numpy soft_depend 0 python-numpy not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-numpy not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 OR relationship already satisfied by parent python-numpy python-gtk2 Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-gtk2 Dep: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4) soft_depend 0 libatk1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.22.0-1 python-gtk2 Dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 python-gtk2 Dep: libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4) soft_depend 0 libcairo2 is included already, acceptable version 1.14.6-1.1 python-gtk2 Dep: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11) soft_depend 0 libfontconfig1 is included already, acceptable version 2.11.0-6.7 python-gtk2 Dep: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1) soft_depend 0 libfreetype6 is included already, acceptable version 2.6.3-3+b1 python-gtk2 Dep: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) soft_depend 0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.36.0-1 python-gtk2 Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 python-gtk2 Dep: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0) soft_depend 0 libgtk2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.24.31-1 python-gtk2 Dep: libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0) soft_depend 0 libpango-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 python-gtk2 Dep: libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.21.4) soft_depend 0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 python-gtk2 Dep: libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.21.4) soft_depend 0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 python-gtk2 Dep: python-cairo (>= 1.0.2-1.1) soft_depend 0 python-cairo not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-cairo not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-cairo (>= 1.0.2-1.1) not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-cairo Dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 python-cairo Dep: libcairo2 (>= 1.8.6) soft_depend 0 libcairo2 is included already, acceptable version 1.14.6-1.1 python-cairo Dep: python (= 2.7~) soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-cairo Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-cairo Dep: python soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-gtk2 Dep: python-gobject-2 (>= 2.21.3) soft_depend 0 python-gobject-2 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-gobject-2 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 OR relationship already satisfied by parent python-gobject-2 (>= 2.21.3) terminator failed, couldn't satisfy OR dep terminator Dep: python-vte soft_depend 0 python-vte not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-vte not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 python-vte not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-vte Dep: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4) soft_depend 0 libatk1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.22.0-1 python-vte Dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 python-vte Dep: libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4) soft_depend 0 libcairo2 is included already, acceptable version 1.14.6-1.1 python-vte Dep: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11) soft_depend 0 libfontconfig1 is included already, acceptable version 2.11.0-6.7 python-vte Dep: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1) soft_depend 0 libfreetype6 is included already, acceptable version 2.6.3-3+b1 python-vte Dep: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) soft_depend 0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.36.0-1 python-vte Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.26.0) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 python-vte Dep: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0) soft_depend 0 libgtk2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.24.31-1 python-vte Dep: libncurses5 (>= 6) soft_depend 0 libncurses5 is included already, acceptable version 6.0+20160917-1 python-vte Dep: libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0) soft_depend 0 libpango-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 python-vte Dep: libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0) soft_depend 0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 python-vte Dep: libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0) soft_depend 0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 python-vte Dep: libtinfo5 (>= 6) soft_depend 0 libtinfo5 is included already, acceptable version 6.0+20160917-1 python-vte Dep: libvte9 (>= 1:0.24.0) soft_depend 0 libvte9 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 libvte9 not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 libvte9 (>= 1:0.24.0) not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 libvte9 Dep: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4) soft_depend 0 libatk1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.22.0-1 libvte9 Dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) soft_depend 0 libc6 is included already, acceptable version 2.24-7 libvte9 Dep: libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4) soft_depend 0 libcairo2 is included already, acceptable version 1.14.6-1.1 libvte9 Dep: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11) soft_depend 0 libfontconfig1 is included already, acceptable version 2.11.0-6.7 libvte9 Dep: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1) soft_depend 0 libfreetype6 is included already, acceptable version 2.6.3-3+b1 libvte9 Dep: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) soft_depend 0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.36.0-1 libvte9 Dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3) soft_depend 0 libglib2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.50.2-2 libvte9 Dep: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0) soft_depend 0 libgtk2.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 2.24.31-1 libvte9 Dep: libncurses5 (>= 6) soft_depend 0 libncurses5 is included already, acceptable version 6.0+20160917-1 libvte9 Dep: libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0) soft_depend 0 libpango-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 libvte9 Dep: libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0) soft_depend 0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 libvte9 Dep: libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0) soft_depend 0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 is included already, acceptable version 1.40.3-3 libvte9 Dep: libtinfo5 (>= 6) soft_depend 0 libtinfo5 is included already, acceptable version 6.0+20160917-1 libvte9 Dep: libx11-6 soft_depend 0 libx11-6 is included already, acceptable version 2:1.6.3-1 libvte9 Dep: libxext6 soft_depend 0 libxext6 is included already, acceptable version 2:1.3.3-1 libvte9 Dep: libvte-common (= 1:0.28.2-5) soft_depend 0 libvte-common not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 libvte-common not included in a useful version, check_backports 0 libvte-common (= 1:0.28.2-5) not already installed OR relationship not already satisfied, looking at alternatives in order, check_backports 0 python-vte Dep: libx11-6 soft_depend 0 libx11-6 is included already, acceptable version 2:1.6.3-1 python-vte Dep: libxext6 soft_depend 0 libxext6 is included already, acceptable version 2:1.3.3-1 python-vte Dep: python (>= 2.7) soft_depend 0 python is included already, acceptable version 2.7.11-2 python-vte Dep: python ( If the build ends with an error such as: > > ERROR: missing required packages from profile MyProfile: mplayer ... > > To find you why this package could not be added refer to: > tmp/cd-build/$dist/sort_deps.$arch.log > > You may need to explicitly add indirect dependencies. For example, > mplayer depends on mplayer-skin. Except there is no mplayer-skin > package. There is, however, an mplayer-skin-blue package that provides > mplayer-skin and satisfies the dependency. Same thing with some > updated packages that provide a number of older packages such as the > gtk2-engines-industrial package which is actually included in the > gtk2-engines package. **If you can determine which package you need, add > it to the *.downloads configuration file of packages** to be included on > the cd. (note: provides should be handled more-or-less correctly as of > simple-cdd 0.3.6) (note to the note: not so much. in one example, > xpdf-utils is no longer a real package. It is a transitional package > to poppler-utils. In upgrading the installer from lenny to squeeze, > this kept holding me back until I explicitly added all the second > level depends and the package causing the problem finally popped up in > the error message. **So to troubleshoot this, you need to start adding > all the packages apt adds automatically to the \*.packages files until > you find a package that depends upon a transitional package.**) > > If simple-cdd does not handle the dependencies of a self build package > correctly, check it with lintian first. It took me two days to figure > out one of my packages which worked seamlessly with dpkg/apt/reprepro > had a mis-formatted header. Apparently, I should be able to solve it by identifying the packages I need and add it to the .downloads file, but: 1. I'm unsure what's the criteria. 2. I tried the shotgun approach, adding all the packages that couldn't be found. That didn't solve the original problem and brought others. 3. It claims that some problems are due mis-formatted headers, so I should use lintian first, however these packages are installed from Debian's mirror, which normally don't have these kind of problems, but either way I don't know how to confirm it. 4. Removing the packages allows the CD to be built, but trying a higher dependency doesn't help. I changed those packages for task-xfce-desktop with more or less the same results.

I am managing repository with a with reprepro. Sometimes I need to upload source packages to the repo. For several packages reprepro asks for additional information: $ reprepro -b /srv/reprepro/ubuntu/ includedsc utopic /tmp/packages/buildenv_cocaine_04.03.2015-11.50/blackhole_0.2.3-1.dsc No section and no priority for 'blackhole', skipping. However, the *binary* package contains all I need: # dpkg -I /tmp/packages/buildenv_cocaine_04.03.2015-11.50/blackhole-dev_0.2.3-1_amd64.deb | grep -i "section\|priority" Section: libdevel Priority: extra I guess that's a bug in a reprepro, so I would like to implement a workaround that could check the missing sections automatically. Which utility can I use in order to inspect *source* package?

We have a reprepro-server which hosts some packages we have developed for our Ubuntu-systems. It contains packages for precies and trusty. Our systems have the reprepro-server configured in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. When we upgrade a system from precise to trusty the sources.list.d-entry gets disabled. How can we configure our systems or reprepro-server contiunue using our sources and upgrade the packages from one version to the next?

I have been working on making Zentyal packages possible on the armhf architecture, and finally succeeded in a working build of 4.0 packages. However the installation is quirky as these packages have a LOT of dependencies, and apt-get does not continue with the install interface of the separate packages. So I thought, let's make a repo out of them, and make it available to all! The thing is - Zentyal uses virtual packages to install. And I simply couldn't find any information on how to add virtual packages to a repo using reprepro. Is there anything simpler than manually adding the entries to the Release file and re-creating the repo with reprepro?

I'm using **reprepro** to package some internal files for distribution via Puppet. When the puppet clients are hitting the repository I'm seeing errors like this: [error] [client 10.20.xx.xx] File does not exist: /var/www/build/dists/POCL/private/i18n/Translation-en.lzma [error] [client 10.20.xx.xx] File does not exist: /var/www/build/dists/POCL/private/binary-armel/Packages.lzma There appear to be two files missing from my (mis)use of reprepro to generate packages. Something for translation support and another for a list of packages? Is there a way to have reprepro generate these files? If not, how would I create them?