aptly

Aptly is a swiss army knife for Debian repository management.

Documentation is available at http://www.aptly.info/. For support please use open issues or discussions.

Aptly features:

• make mirrors of remote Debian/Ubuntu repositories, limiting by components/architectures
• take snapshots of mirrors at any point in time, fixing state of repository at some moment of time
• publish snapshot as Debian repository, ready to be consumed by apt
• controlled update of one or more packages in snapshot from upstream mirror, tracking dependencies
• merge two or more snapshots into one
• filter repository by search query, pulling dependencies when required
• publish self-made packages as Debian repositories
• REST API for remote access

Any contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Installation

Aptly can be installed on several operating systems.

Debian / Ubuntu

Aptly is provided in the following debian packages:

• aptly (main binary)
• aptly-api (systemd service for REST API)
• aptly-dbgsym (debugging symbols)

The packages can be installed on official Debian and Ubuntu distributions.

Upstream Debian Packages

If a newer version (not available in Debian/Ubuntu) of aptly is required, upstream debian packages (built from git tags) can be installed as follows:

Install the following APT key (as root):

wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/aptly.asc https://www.aptly.info/pubkey.txt

Define Release APT sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aptly.list:

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/aptly.asc] http://repo.aptly.info/release DIST main

Where DIST is one of: buster, bullseye, bookworm, focal, jammy, noble

Install aptly packages:

apt-get update
apt-get install aptly
apt-get install aptly-api  # REST API systemd service

CI Builds

For testing new features or bugfixes, recent builds are available as CI builds (built from master, may be unstable!) and can be installed as follows:

Define CI APT sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aptly-ci.list:

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/aptly.asc] http://repo.aptly.info/ci DIST main

Where DIST is one of: buster, bullseye, bookworm, focal, jammy, noble

Note: same gpg key is used as for the Upstream Debian Packages.

Other Operating Systems

Binary executables (depends almost only on libc) are available on GitHub Releases for:

• macOS / darwin (amd64, arm64)
• FreeBSD (amd64, arm64, 386, arm)
• Generic Linux (amd64, arm64, 386, arm)

Integrations

Vagrant:

• Vagrant configuration by Zane Williamson, allowing to bring two virtual servers, one with aptly installed and another one set up to install packages from repository published by aptly

Docker:

• Docker container with aptly inside by Mike Purvis
• Docker container with aptly and nginx by Artem Smirnov

With configuration management systems:

• Chef cookbook by Aaron Baer (Heavy Water Operations, LLC)
• Puppet module by Government Digital Services
• Puppet module by TubeMogul
• SaltStack Formula by Forrest Alvarez and Brian Jackson
• Ansible role by Tom Paine

CLI for aptly API:

• Ruby aptly CLI/library by Zane Williamson
• Python aptly CLI (good for CI) by Tim Susa

GUI for aptly API:

• Python aptly GUI (via pyqt5) by Cedric Hnyda

Scala sbt:

• sbt aptly plugin by Arup Malakar

Molior:

• Molior Debian Build System by André Roth