Questions tagged [repository]
A repository is the storage location of a package management or version control software. Consider adding tags for the particular software, e.g. apt, yum, git, svn.
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How to know from which yum repository a package has been installed?
After I have installed a package by yum (with multiple repositories configured), how can I find from which repository it has been installed?
If I run yum info package-name (or yum list package-name), ...
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list all packages from a repository in ubuntu / debian
is there a command to see what packages are available from a certain ppa repository?
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How to enable PowerTools repository in CentOS 8?
Since I had a lot of trouble finding out how to do this anywhere, I'd like to ask,
how do I enable the PowerTools repository in CentOS 8? (equivalent of CodeReady Linux Builder repo in RHEL 8)
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Disable prompts while installing a Debian package
How can i disable totally the prompts that appear while installing a Debian package, i've used all the options that i've found but there are some packages that are still prompting.
I'm using this ...
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Use git commands with another path rather than the actual working dir
When using git add . uses the actual path where you're (incase is a git repo). How would I do for using git add, git commit and git push' outside of the working dir? Likegit add /Users/zad0xsis/my-git-...
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Setting Up Git Repository on Remote Windows Server?
I have a windows server which I can access locally or remotely over the internet through remote desktop connection, etc.
I want to set up a git repository (something similar to "trunk" in subversion),...
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Can I have two versions of the same package in an apt repository?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 across my entire environment. To make code deploys easier, we are implementing a private apt repository where we can deploy builds of our code.
One of the requirements of ...
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How do I remove a repository of yum
When I search for a package in yum(centos 6), it tries to search in a repro named 'c6-media'
And it gives a bunch of errors as follows
file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not ...
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Best practice for proxying package repositories
I have a collection of CentOS servers in my corporate network. For security reasons, most servers do not have general outbound internet access unless it is a core functional requirement for the server....
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Installing HAProxy on CentOS 6.3?
This is a weird one.
I've installed the EPEL for CentOS 6 via
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
The tried to install HAProxy:
# yum update
# yum ...
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Reprepro export could not find signing key
We have a private debian repository that was set up years ago by an earlier system admin. Packages were signed by the older key, 7610DDDE (which I had to revoke), as shown here for the root user on ...
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SVN: Where is my repository?
I'm trying to backup my SVN respository.
My problem: I forgot where I put my repository on the hard disk.
How can I find this?
FYI: I'm using TortoiseSVN if that helps.
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Using a self-signed SSL cert for an HTTPS-based internal APT repository
I've set up a Debian repository (Ubuntu actually) for internal use with some private packages, and now want to make it available over the web to some specific servers. I would like apt-get / aptitude ...
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Best way to clean up Yum repository?
We have a custom Yum repo that our developers upload builds to.
The problem is that after some time it becomes cluttered with old versions.
Removing the old versions manually is quite annoying, so ...
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Who is the behind Webtatic repository and do you trust it
Webtatic repository has lots of useful packages for CentOS and RedHat. However the repository is very opaque and I have hard time to find information of who is behind it, appart of "Andrew Thompson", ...
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Is it possible to search an apt repository via a web browser?
I've installed the beta version of Ubuntu 10.04 server edition (x64), but the system doesn't have an internet connection. Is there a way I can find out what packages are in the apt repository with ...
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How to install package with yum without updating repository information?
I want to install some packages from repository but always when I'm trying to yum install packagename yum updates db:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Determining ...
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Is the ppa:ondrej/php repository safe?
I installed the ppa:ondrej/php repository for php and performed an apt-get upgrade. Little did I know it had a lot of libraries packages installed that I have no idea about, so I was wondering if they ...
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git vs Subversion - pros and cons [closed]
I have been a user of SVN for many years now and I can't say I am totally happy about it.
Few days ago my partner asked me to take a look at git saying that "it has better performance, easier merging ...
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MySQL Repository Key Expired
The MySQL repository key has suddenly expired again, so I get a GPG error in Ubuntu when running apt-get update
The error is W: GPG error: http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu xenial InRelease: The ...
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Enabling apt-get on a default Amazon EC2 instance which has yum installed
I'd like to call something like:
sudo yum install apt
to enable me to use apt-get as well as yum for installation.
However this doesn't work. I get the following back:
Loaded plugins: ...
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Recovering from a borked reprepro pull [duplicate]
We distribute our software via custom debian apt repositories we create with reprepro. (Disclaimer: I'm not the release engineer who set this up; he's no longer with us.)
We have four repos:
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Freeing up space in my SVN repository
I have an SVN repository hosted on a freemium site with a maximum repository size. As I approach this capacity I am aware of files I've checked in that I know I can remove permanently to free up disk ...
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How do I install the main repositories for RHEL6
We've setup RHEL6 on a new server. As far as we can tell, our subscription is all setup properly. However, when I run yum repolist, it doesn't show any repositories. /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo is ...
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recreating svn repository
after a major server fault, svn repository was destroyed and my working version is most current one,
what is the way to recreate svn repository from my working version?
after installing svn on a new ...
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yum update, how to make rpm package updateable
need a link or tutorial on how to make an rpm package work with yum UPDATE. i have it and already works with yum INSTALL and yum ERASE, but is there somewhere info on how to make rpm package work when ...
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Installing yum packages on airgapped (offline) CentOS 6 system
I have a CentOS 6 system which, for security reasons, is airgapped. It may have never been connected to the internet, and if it has, it hasn't been updated in a long time.
I want to put all the .rpm ...
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How to maintain PCI compliance on a LAMP server when repositories don't keep up with versions
We run Ubuntu Lucid 10.0.4 as the foundation of our LAMP environment. We are trying to become PCI compliant so that we can pass CC info through our server. We have run some third-party scans on our ...
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How can I do daily backups for my VisualSVN Repos? [duplicate]
How can I do daily backups for my VisualSVN Repos?
Its on a Windows Server 2003 machine with VisualSVN Server, I was thinking about just doing an xcopy of the folder C:\Repo but I'm not familiar ...
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Is it possible to keep the .hg directory in custom location
I want to have a Mercurial repository set, but instead of having the .hg/ directory under the repository tree, I would love to move it somewhere away (like to other partition) from working copy.
Is ...
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How can I version control a mirrored upstream repository?
I manage many servers that span multiple environments (dev, qa, staging, and production). To help manage these, we have multiple repositories on a local webserver for our applications (e.g. app_1_el6, ...
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Gitolite clone not working as intended
I am running a Debian system, and have recently installed gitolite using the DEB package.
Here is my problem:
I have tried to clone the gitolite-admin.git repository (which is used for configuring ...
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Yum repo priorities and conflicts
On my CentOS 6.4 server, I am running MySQL 5.5.33 that I installed from the remi repository. I decided to upgrade MySQL to 5.6.x via MySQL's own yum repositories:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-repo-...
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Repositories for CentOS that don't suck?
I'm used to using ubuntu/debian repositories and they are great. I can apt-get just about any package and it'll be there. I have not found this on centos. I called my hosting company and they suggest ...
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What tools are there to create and manage an apt repository?
I'm currently in charge of packaging for Ubuntu some software my company creates and creating an apt repository for it. However, I'm having trouble finding tools to create and manage the repository ...
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Can anybody tell me how to create my own local package repository for my packages in Ubuntu?
I want to create a package repository for my packages in ubuntu and this repository will be using in multiple Ubuntu systems to install and update packages.
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How do I mount the CentOS 7 ISO and add it as a yum repository
How do I mount the CentOS 7 ISO and add it as a yum repository?
The places I search say to look for a media.repo underneath the mounted ISO, but there is no such file.
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When should one use EPEL 5 or EPEL 6?
I am not familiar with repos, and I don't get why there are several versions of EPEL (this is a bit philosophical I know, but I am afraid I am missing something in all that).
Should I just look ...
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Ubuntu add repo app-key fails
On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, I'm trying to install packages like MongoDB, Sublime Text 3 etc. but before adding them their repo url must be added.
I'm trying this command:
wget -qO - https://download....
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Create a "controlled" APT proxy
Do you have any experience/scrips creating a controlled APT proxy (*)?
Currently, I'm using apt-cacher to speed up installs/updates in my LAN, but as its name says, it's only a cache (and a good one ...
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primary.sqlite.bz2 not found on private repo
I've been setting up a private repo for the company I'm working. At the beginning it was working properly, but today, when I'll try to install a new rpm that I've build I had this ugly error :
http://...
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Why do signed deb packages say they're not authenticated when copied to my private deb repo?
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I have set up a private deb repository and copied some signed deb packages into it. I have installed the signing key locally. However when I try to install from the repo I get this ...
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Creating a local rpmforge/repoforge mirror?
I make good use of RPMforge for my production CentOS systems. I have local repositories for the main CentOS distribution and updates, however, recent automated kickstart installs are starting to hang ...
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Why do I get this APT warning: Signature by key [...] uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1)?
I'm hosting a private Debian repository for some custom Raspberry Pi code. I originally built the software on Raspbian Jessie (version 8), generated a GPG key which I use to sign the repository, and ...
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Create Debian repository with multiple packages verions
I need to create debian repository to keep our software packages, but the main point here is to allow multiple versions of software be keep in it to rollback if needed.
reprepo is unable to do that, ...
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.deb repository management software
I've been searching for an user friendly solution to manage a repository for some custom .deb packages we're using inside my company. I've briefly looked over the tools listed here, but they seem to ...
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How to install mariadb on amazon linux
I referred to the link https://blog.adminfactory.net/mariadb-and-galera-on-aws-amazon-linux.html to install the mariadb on my amazon linux, since I did not find any other resource related to amazon ...
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how to choose the correct repository for new software on Centos
I want to install PHP7 and on Centos you can only do that by installing extra repositories. I see a variety of them (remi, ius, webtatic), and the comments on forums are both pro and contra.
I am ...
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Incremental Backups of SVN Repository daily ? (OS = UNIX)
the first part of question how i can make Incremental Backups of SVN Repository ? what is the command do this ....... and how i can do this automatically (OS + UNIX)
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SVN limitations - Number of users and repositories?
I would like to know if SVN has a specified limitations of how many users and repositories it can sustain?
Thank you.
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