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Hello mepis people,

I with the help of others have been working on putting together an apt repository for antix. While trying to set it up, I have come accross a problem that is proving to be rather difficult to solve.

Currently I am trying to build the repository using reprepro. It works out great as the root user, or as a regular user with root priveleges. I would like to have it working as a regular user without the need to be referanced to "root" in any way. Every thing that I can think of at the moment allways ends up with the same result from reprepro.



REPREPRO CONFIGS
distributions

options


The gpg key for the SignWith option is made as root using the gpg --gen-key command
gpg --gen-key
option (1) RSA and RSA
keysize 1024
0 = key does not expire
(Y)

From my lack of ability to solve this we have looked into other repository management utilities such as apt-move which skips every single file I tried to add. Right now I am feeling open to any comments / suggestions that people may have on how to setup and run an apt repository.
The basic requirements we are looking for: (That I can think of)
1. multiple user access. (So that all contributing developers can upload to the repository)
2. gpg signed ( So apt does not ask to verify the install )
3. Support for multiple branches
> http://antix.example/repo testing full main
> http://antix.example/repo testing base main
> http://antix.example/repo testing core main

Any comments / suggestions / questions will be greatly appreciated
Dave

I suspect that the Linux security model is your problem. root privileges are required for this sort of thing I'd think. Perhaps someone more familiar might be able to help but I'd be surprised if you can do much without root privileges.

Don't know much about it but searching around I found this> http://linuxconfig.org/easy-way-to-crea ... repository ...looks to me like you just need a server installed like apache and then configure everything like permissions from the server admin. Jerry

Thanks for the replies,
Apache is installed and configured to point to the directory which holds the apt repository, this seems to function correctly. It is possible, though I am hoping not, that it is the linux security model. I believe that this is not the case because in a lot of howtos I have read it has used reprepro as the root user and as regular user. I was thinking that it may be because I made the gpg key as root that I would need to remain root. However changing the repository to use a key made by a regular user did not help.