Re: Private Repository

[Ronald Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost>]

Brad,
THANKS! That works great!

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:44 AM Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> Ronald Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > All,
> > I saw the email about Local repo, which prompted me to ask my question.
> > I am on 9.0_RC1 building packages with pkg_comp (thank you Bob Nestor
> > for all  your help). All my "built" packages are in
> > /build/pkgsrc/packages/All. My repository.conf points there and i have
> > had no problems pkgin in 'whatever'. I want to make that available to
> > other computers on my network. For example, I have a Lenovo X200 that
> > I will install 9.0_RC1. I would like to point to my "personal" repo in
> > order to pkgin in packages.
> >
> > My question is, how do I do that? Do I need my "build box" to be an
> > ftp server? or do I spin up a web server? Is there info on how to do
> > that?
> >
> > Can I use my github repository?
> >
> > Any hints or links will be appreciated.
>
> Might be as simple as putting this in your /etc/inetd.conf on the system
> with the artifacts....  the httpd server that comes with the OS works
> well enough:
>
> http            stream  tcp     nowait:600      _httpd  /usr/libexec/httpd      httpd -X /build/pkgsrc/packages/All
>
> Then you can use 'http://whatever.the.above.system.is' as the URL.
>
> I do this with pkg_add (don't use pkgin)....
>
>
>
>
> --
> Brad Spencer - brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org



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