customrepo is a debian package that provides a debian repository featuring packages that are either downloaded from other sources or built by the system.
- This is primarily intended for my own personal use to manage my configurations and packages. As such, breaking changes may be made at any time.
- The packages starting with
why-are my own personal configurations of packages and metapackages. They may be changed at any time as I update my configuration. Installing them will break your existing configurations.
To install, first download the git repository. Then make sure the following dependencies are installed:
sudo apt install make wget gpgFinally, build and install the custom repo.
make && sudo make installThis will install a debian package that manages the custom repo and provides the neccesary commands.
This package provides the command custom_repo_build that must be run as root that builds or downloads any custom packages. These can then be used normally using apt.
The general update process is:
sudo custom_repo_build- To update the repository. This will download or build any required packages.sudo apt update- To update the packages available inapt.sudo apt upgradeorsudo apt install <package_name>
After installing the custom repository. You can install the why-upgrade package to quickly upgrade with one command.
sudo why_upgrade
This basically runs all of the above commands.