View to show a binary-package(s) artifact as an unsigned apt repo
At DebConf, Jochen had packaged Organic Maps, built it with Debusine, and was asking me to try it out before uploading it.
I did get the debs via debusine: I navigated to each artifact, downloaded the .deb
filesand manually installed them. It would have been significantly more convenient to get a temporary apt stanza out of debusine.
We could build a view for that, that takes an artifact and:
- by default, shows an apt stanza pointing at the view itself, allowing unsigned use
- have
…/Packages
provide aPackages
file generated on the fly from artifact metadata - have
…/foo.deb
download the corresponding file from the artifact
It would be a quick and dirty, but convenient, way for people to test prospective uploads. The goal is to make a convenient front-end for a common use case for an artifact, not a substitute for personal repositories (which would, among other things, be signed and support updates)