{"id":7261,"date":"2003-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/13\/apt-rpm\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"apt-rpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/13\/apt-rpm\/","title":{"rendered":"apt-rpm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

For the last couple of days I played a bit more with apt. This time, the goal was to setup a local repository. There are two excellent documents which together cover everything there is to it: FreshRPM’s guide to setting up an apt server<\/A> and this Red Hat apt Repository HOWTO<\/A>. I’ve managed to setup repositories with Red Hat 8.0 and 9 operating systems, updates for them, and appropriate FreshRPMs<\/A> archives for them. All that is now needed is extensive testing. :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

For the last couple of days I played a bit more with apt. This time, the goal was to setup a local repository. There are two excellent documents which together cover everything there is to it: FreshRPM’s guide to setting up an apt server and this Red Hat apt Repository HOWTO. I’ve managed to setup … Continue reading apt-rpm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7257,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/08\/2003-10-08\/","url_meta":{"origin":7261,"position":0},"title":"2003-10-08","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 8, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Home network day. 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