Ant-apt-repo : An ant task to create apt repository from .deb files

This is a simple Ant task (hosted here) to create an apt repository from within an Ant project. It is ported from the maven plugin – theoweiss/apt-repo.

This task is usually used with the debian package creation task ant-deb.

 Usage

    <taskdef name="aptrepo" classname="com.codemarvels.ant.aptrepotask.AptRepoTask" >
        <classpath>
            <fileset dir="lib/ant/apt-repo" ><!--all jar files in this project is expected to be found here -->
                 <include name="*.jar"/>
            </fileset>
        </classpath>
    </taskdef>
<target name="createRepository">
  <aptrepo repoDir="${debian.folder}/output/repository"/> <!-- keep all .deb files in this folder -->
</target>

 Notes

• Keep all .deb files you want to publish, in the repoDir folder.
• The package listings will be created in the same folder, which can then be published using a web-server as a debian repository. (The URL to this folder will be the repository URL to be added to sources list)

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