Devuan repository 🔼

devuan repo / description 🔼

A Devuan repository is an collection of deb packages (archives of the deb format) .

devuan repo / relation to devuan distribution 🔼

A Devuan distribution is (i think) as concept has more dynamic connotations. For example , a user can say that zie has a Devuan distribution in zer info-processing device. And by that we mean many more things than simple a repository.

The devuan repository is accessible from the internet through various mirrors.

Read also about Devuan package repositories in devuan.org link

To learn about a Devuan repository we must have access to one. In the early days of linux distributions that would be a set of CDROMS. In our era (2020s) is a internet accessible repo.

deb.devuan.org

devuan repo / files 🔼

Basically we expect to find files that are archives of .deb type.

devuan repo / structure 🔼

http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/dists/ (here are dirs for each distro version)

[DIR]   1.0/    2019-12-02 21:41    -    
[DIR]   2.0/    2019-12-02 21:41    -    
[DIR]   3.0/    2019-12-02 21:41    -    
[DIR]   4.0/    2020-01-07 15:38    -    
[DIR]   5.0/    2021-07-09 12:39    -    
[DIR]   6.0/    2023-03-29 16:26    -    

[DIR]   daedalus-backports/ 2023-05-25 20:15    -    
[DIR]   daedalus-proposed-updates/  2023-03-29 20:15    -    
[DIR]   daedalus-security/  2023-05-25 20:15    -    
[DIR]   daedalus-updates/   2023-05-25 20:15    -    
[DIR]   daedalus/   2021-07-09 12:39    -    


[DIR]  stable-backports/    2023-05-25 20:15    -    
[DIR]   stable-proposed-updates/    2023-03-29 20:15    -    
[DIR]   stable-security/    2023-05-25 20:15    -    
[DIR]   stable-updates/ 2023-05-25 20:15    -    
[DIR]   stable/ 2021-07-09 12:39    -    
[DIR]   testing/    2023-03-29 16:26    -    
[DIR]   unstable/   2019-12-02 21:37

Those two locations are the same:

http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/ (presumably that location has Devuan maintained deb packages that

                                     are referenced by various subsections of the devuan distribution).

devuan repo / files / Packages.gz 🔼

Inspecting the "Packages" file we see that it contains a stanza describing each package; the first field in each stanza is the formal package name. @

In:

devuan repo / files / Contents-μarc.gz {#devuan-repo-files-contents-μarc.gz} 🔼