How to Set Up a Repository in Your Home Directory

[Neal ManBear]

Edit:
Rather than follow these instructions, open a terminal and enter mkrepo.

This is intended as a way for you to test the RPMs that you build. It is not a replacement for your regular repo.

Repository How To

Open a terminal and enter these commands. *Warning! Do this as user, not as root!

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cd ~/src

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mkdir -p apt/pclinuxos/2009/base

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mkdir apt/pclinuxos/2009/RPMS.testing

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cd apt/pclinuxos/2009/base
Keep the terminal open.

Open your file manager and navigate to your ~/src/rpm/RPMS/i586 folder. Right-click on your test rpm file and select Copy. Now go to the ~/src/apt/pclinuxos/2007/RPMS.testing folder, right-click and select Paste.

Go back to the terminal window and type the following:

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gbd
This is from the pkgutils commands. The longer command is shown below -

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genbasedir --flat --bz2only --progress /home/username/src/apt/pclinuxos/2009 testing
Next, open Synaptic and go to Settings > Repositories. Click on New. Enter this information:

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URI:   /home/username/src/apt/
Distribution:  pclinuxos/2009
Sections:  testing

Be sure to replace username with your name.

Now click OK. Click Reload. Your repository will be loaded into Synaptic' list along with your regular repo.

[mbmalone]

This is really cool  

Now I just need to figure out how to load the testing RPM's from my Thumbdrive, when I want to try new ones that I have previously saved there.

[Neal ManBear]

Mount your thumb drive. Right-click on your test rpm file and select Copy. Now go to the ~/src/apt/pclinuxos/2007/RPMS.testing folder, right-click and select Paste.

Open a terminal and

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gbd as in the instructions above. Follow the instructions from there.

[mbmalone]

Thanks Neal, easiest way I guess.

Mount your thumb drive. Right-click on your test rpm file and select Copy. Now go to the ~/src/apt/pclinuxos/2007/RPMS.testing folder, right-click and select Paste.

Open a terminal and

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gbd as in the instructions above. Follow the instructions from there.

[Neal ManBear]

Yep! Easiest way.

[trustytrev]

Hello,
      Is the information for "Repository How To" still current.I want to have a go at packaging for PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE 4 so was wondering if I would be okay following the packager's guides.I encountered this at the first instance.
[trevor@localhost ~]$ cd ~/src
bash: cd: /home/trevor/src: No such file or directory
Also I am finding it confusing which packager howto is current.
Thanks.
trustytrev.

[Joble]

http://www.montanalinux.org/files/RPM_Build_Manual_Rev2.pdf

I still use it.

Also read this:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,56817.0.html

Much easier to get setup that way than to do it manually.

[trustytrev]

Hello,
       Thanks for the response.I will get busy.
trustytrev.
         

[BubbaBlues]

These codes no longer work.

[Neal ManBear]

These codes no longer work.

  Do you mean the how-to?

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,56817.0.html
pkgutils still works. Look for the KDE4 package or the thunar package.

[BubbaBlues]

Code:

cd ~/src

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mkdir -p apt/pclinuxos/2009/base

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mkdir apt/pclinuxos/2009/RPMS.testing

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cd apt/pclinuxos/2009/base


Keep the terminal open.

Open your file manager and navigate to your ~/src/rpm/RPMS/i586 folder. Right-click on your test rpm file and select Copy. Now go to the ~/src/apt/pclinuxos/2007/RPMS.testing folder, right-click and select Paste.

This how to doesn't work for me, but I'm in uncharted waters here. Trying to expand my horizons. 

[Neal ManBear]

Have you installed task-packaging-kde4? Or pkgutils-thunar? If so, follow the link in my previous post for some tips on using pkgutils.

[BubbaBlues]

Have you installed task-packaging-kde4?

Dad burnit I knew there was something...

THANK YOU Neal

[BubbaBlues]

The code does not work.  The repository does not add to synaptic.

[gseaman]

Did you run ./genbasedir?

Galen