anthrax3 / aptly-convert.py

Automation script for hard-linking the DEB files in a directory into another directory using the aptly pool directory structure.

aptly-convert.py

Description

Automation script for hard-linking the DEB files in a directory into another directory using the aptly pool directory structure.

Info

This script creates hard links for the DEB files into the aptly pool directory structure. You can use the script for any directory structure conatining DEB files (such as the default mirror directory "/var/spool/apt-mirror" for DEB files mirrored with apt-mirror).

After executing this script the new directory structure of the files be comaptible with aptly. So when you update your aptly mirror the DEB files will not be downloaded again. Hardlinks are used to save time and disk space.

I you already have an aptly pool containing some files, it is recommended to use a temproary aptly pool folder and then merge the contents using rsync etc. manually. After checking everthing is ok, you can safely delete ("rm", "rm -rf") the old DEB files since they are already hard linked to new directory structure.

I have written this script to trasnfer my local apt-mirror repositories to aptly. It saved me a lot of time and bandwidth. Since it uses hardlinks, it doesn't require extra disk space. I hope it will be usefull for others.

Usage

usage: aptly-convert.py [-h] [--verbosity VERBOSITY] [--src_path SRC_PATH] [--dst_path DST_PATH]

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --verbosity VERBOSITY, -v VERBOSITY increase output verbosity. 1: Prints info for every file processed. 2: Prints extra info (HASH etc.) for every file processed. 3: Prints directory traversal info. --src_path SRC_PATH, -s SRC_PATH Source directory containing the DEB files (defaults to "/var/spool/apt-mirror") --dst_path DST_PATH, -d DST_PATH Destination directory that will contain the DEB files in aptly pool structure (defaults to "/var/spool/aptly/pool")