User:Afontain/Draft:Darkhttpd
Darkhttpd is a very simple http server. It is trivial to setup and serves static content over HTTP and nothing more. Turns out, that's exactly what we need to create an Alpine repository. Here are some tricks with that program.
Have your packages automatically upgradable
You can have your package served automatically so that an apk upgrade -U
is all you need to install your home-built packages. For that to work, you need to:
initial setup
- Add your keys to /etc/apk/keys on your phone. For that, you can use something like this:
scp /etc/apk/keys/antoine.fontaine@epfl.ch-* 172.16.42.1:~ ssh 172.16.42.1 sudo mv antoine.fontaine@epfl.ch-* /etc/apk/keys/
- Add the repository on your phone
echo http://172.16.42.2:8080/ >>/etc/apk/repositories # could be some other ip, and you could choose some other port
then, when you want to dev
- Start
darkhttpd
started on your computer and to serve the repo. Just leave it running in a terminal somewhere
darkhttpd ~/.local/var/pmchroot/packages # for pmbootstrap darkhttpd ~/packages # alternatively, for abuild
pmbootstrap build
andapk upgrade -U
a package when you want made a changepmbootstrap build --force
andapk fix -U pkgname
to force an upgrade when you don't change the pkgrel- Enjoy!
An example automatic setup
on alpine
/etc/
on something else
You can probably do the same with a runit or systemd service. If you do, please share here!