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If I'd decide to implement something like this, I'd consider two options: local repo with
file://
scheme or custom apt-transport. HTTP server is needless here. (But I'll never do this because I prefer to rebuild packages myself if there's no repo for my distro.)With that, I couldn't trigger a download when
apt update
is ran, I could only do a cron, i.e. a delay, that I do not want.I thought about that, but found no documentation on how to do it. If you have any, I'm interested.
Even just finding documentation on how to generate DEBs and APT repository metadata files was very hard.
It is documented in
libapt-pkg-doc
(/usr/share/doc/libapt-pkg-doc/method.html/index.html
).In an APT package OMG 😂
I found an online version though, which I would never have found through my search engine (and on a site that doesn't even support HTTPS) 😅
Looks like difficult reading too 😭
Thanks anyway.
Yeah, I don't have the skill for this. I'd be very happy if someone else would make this, but if not then I'm sticking to HTTP.
I went way down the rabbit hole on this one and ended up with a proof of concept that's probably close enough to be able to wire it up: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3745244
I guess it didn't end up too much code, but I'm not entirely sure it's worth it.
(it's after 3 AM? oh no what have I done)
I'll look into it, thanks !
Why the OOP structure and syntax ? Sorry but it makes it difficult to read for me even in my own language 😅
uh, because TypeScript is an object-oriented language, as are the Deno APIs? I'm not sure I understand the question.
It's more functional than object-oriented and I read the former better than the latter. 😅
differently hacky idea:
since you do end up with all the packages in a repository on the filesystem, and you just want to have it do this just-in-time updating when the Packages file is accessed...
what if you list it as a normal
file
apt source, but you make the Packages file a FIFO?it's a cursed idea but I'm not sure it is any less cursed than the other options we've come up with.
it may or may not help to have systemd.socket manage creating the FIFO and running the service.
What's a FIFO ?
I've also looked into VFS but found nothing I'd have the skills to implement. 😅