Executing drop command on a mirror will only remove the meta information for the mirror and it will not remove the package files occupying space…
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aptly remove a package from a repository using the cli
Here is a fast tip – how to remove a package from our local aptly repository: Remove the package from the local repository. Create a…
Mirror a PPA repositories using aptly – PHP (ppa:ondrej/php)
This is a simple example of how to mirror a PPA repository to a local server. The Ubuntu PPA to mirror is ppa:ondrej/php, which offers…
Mirror the official Ubuntu repositories using aptly
This article is to show mainly how to work with aptly by mirroring an official Ubuntu mirror. If you want to know how to install…
aplty – unable to find control.tar.gz part in package – change deb package compression from xz to gzip
We upgraded to a new version of Ubuntu and our CI (continuous integration) scripts began to throw errors when uploading packages to out aptly repository:…
Install aptly under Ubuntu 18 LTS with nginx serving the packages and the first steps
This article is how to install aptly software, which offers easy Debian repository management. First, few words for aptly and what tasks are really simple…
aptly publish ERROR: unable to publish: unable to process packages: error linking file to
We’ve encountered the following error when issuing a publish command: And the snapshot had failed to publish. Check if the file is “aptly:aptly” (or the…
aptly publish: gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
This is also a common error in a typical aptly installation. The other two common errors related to the GPG keys are: aptly publish: ERROR:…
aptly publish: ERROR: unable to initialize GPG signer. Missing pubring.gpg keys
In continuation of our aptly common mistakes here one more when making a second mirror aptly server to your master (you may encounter this error…
aptly mirror: ERROR: unable to update: no candidates for debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages found
Always check the source what supports when trying to mirror! We have lost some time before discovering that our source repository does not support udeb…