apt-repo-server is a debian repository server. It monitors file changing event(inotify), then reproduce index file(Packages.gz) automatically.
Run server
$ docker run -it -v ${PWD}/data:/data -p 10000:80 dorowu/apt-repo-server
Export a debian package
$ cp qnap-fix-input_0.1_all.deb data/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/
File structure looks like
$ tree data/
data/
└── dists
├── precise
│ └── main
│ ├── binary-amd64
│ │ └── Packages.gz
│ └── binary-i386
│ └── Packages.gz
└── trusty
└── main
├── binary-amd64
│ ├── Packages.gz
│ └── qnap-fix-input_0.1_all.deb
└── binary-i386
└── Packages.gz
Packages.gz looks like
$ zcat data/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Package: qnap-fix-input
Version: 0.1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Doro Wu <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 33
Filename: ./qnap-fix-input_0.1_all.deb
Size: 1410
MD5sum: 8c08f13d61da1b8dc355443044bb2608
SHA1: 6deef134c94da7f03846a6b74c9e4258c514868f
SHA256: 7441f1616810d5893510d31eac2da18d07b8c13225fd2136e6a380aefe33c815
Section: utils
Priority: extra
Description: QNAP fix
UNKNOWN
Update /etc/apt/sources.list
$ echo deb http://127.0.0.1:10000 trusty main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-repo is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.