Sometimes the user manual may be unclear and you came here searching for a solution of dropping a published repository.
We have aptly version: 1.3.0 and here is the right syntax to remove a published repository.
First list the published repositories and reverse the “
/ ” replacing it with space
The commands will be:
1 2 3 4 | aptly publish listPublished repositories: * <name-distribution>/<release> [amd64] publishes {main: [xenial-<name>]: Some description}aptly publish drop -force-drop <release> <name-distribution> |
“name-distribution” is the “http://aptly.example.com/[name-distribution]” in the URL. For example, the repository URL of myrepo is “http://aptly.example.com/myrepo” and the name-distribution is “myrepo”.
A real world example
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | root@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish listPublished repositories: * myrepo/stable [amd64] publishes {main: [xenial-myrepo]: Stable myrepo packages} * test/test [amd64] publishes {test: [test]: Test repo}root@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish list --rawmyrepo stabletest test |
We want to remove “myrepo/stable”:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | root@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish drop -force-drop stable myrepoRemoving /etc/aptly/.aptly/public/etc/dists...Removing /etc/aptly/.aptly/public/etc/pool...The published repository has been removed successfully.root@srv-aptly:~# |
The wrong syntax
You might have tried it that’s why you came here:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | root@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish list Published repositories: * myrepo/stable [amd64] publishes {main: [xenial-myrepo]: Stable myrepo packages} * test/test [amd64] publishes {test: [test]: Test repo}root@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish list --rawmyrepo stabletest testroot@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish drop myrepoERROR: unable to remove: published repo with storage:prefix/distribution ./myrepo not foundroot@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish drop myrepo stableERROR: unable to remove: published repo with storage:prefix/distribution stable/myrepo not foundroot@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish drop myrepo-stableERROR: unable to remove: published repo with storage:prefix/distribution ./myrepo-stable not foundroot@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish drop -force-drop myrepo-stableERROR: unable to remove: published repo with storage:prefix/distribution ./myrepo-stable not foundroot@srv-aptly:~# aptly --config="/etc/aptly/.aptly.conf" publish drop -force-drop myrepo stableERROR: unable to remove: published repo with storage:prefix/distribution stable/myrepo not foundroot@srv-aptly:~# |
Thank you for the real world example, it really helps me.