What is the apt equivalent of yum's createrepo?

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With yum, I can create a respository from a folder of RPMs with the createrepo tool. What's the equivalent to turn a folder of .deb files into an apt repository?

This isn't about mirroring upstream repos or serving anything at scale, just simply taking a couple of built .deb packages and turning them into something I can point apt-get at.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '13 at 18:05

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There are several tools for managing repositories. The simplest one is dpkg-scanpackages, but a nicer alternative is reprepro.

answered Dec 30 '13 at 18:05

Dennis Kaarsemaker

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reprepro seems to be the closest thing -- a bit more verbose than createrepo but also more powerful – kdt Dec 31 '13 at 12:09

What is the apt equivalent of yum's createrepo?

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