reprepro Cookbook

Provides custom resources that set up an APT repository suitable for using the reprepro tool to manage distributions and components.

See the reprepro documentation for more information about reprepro itself, including the man(1) page in the package http://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/

Help Wanted

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Maintainers

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Requirements

Platforms

Debian/Ubuntu

Chef

Chef 15.3+

Cookbooks

nginx
apache2 You'll need to generate the PGP key separately and provide it as resource properties or manage it before converging the repository resource.

Resources

[reprepro_repository](documentation/reprepro_repository.md)
[reprepro_apache](documentation/reprepro_apache.md)
[reprepro_nginx](documentation/reprepro_nginx.md)
[reprepro_deb](documentation/reprepro_deb.md)

Migration

This cookbook no longer ships recipes or attributes. See [migration.md](migration.md) for the breaking change from node['reprepro'] attributes and reprepro::default recipes to resource properties.

Repository

Create a repository by declaring reprepro_repository directly.

reprepro_repository 'default' do
  fqdn 'apt.example.com'
  repo_dir '/srv/apt'
  incoming '/srv/apt_incoming'
  description 'APT Repository for our packages'
  codenames %w(noble jammy)
  allow ['unstable>sid', 'stable>squeeze']
  pgp_email 'packages@example.com'
  pgp_fingerprint 'PGP Fingerprint for the key'
  pgp_public "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\n-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\n"
  pgp_private "-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----\n-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----\n"
  pulls(
    'name' => 'noble',
    'from' => 'noble',
    'component' => 'main'
  )
  architectures %w(amd64 i386 all source)
end

Web Servers

Serve the repository with Apache or Nginx.

reprepro_apache 'apt_repo' do
  fqdn 'apt.example.com'
  repo_dir '/srv/apt'
  pgp_email 'packages@example.com'
end

reprepro_nginx 'apt_repo' do
  fqdn 'apt.example.com'
  repo_dir '/srv/apt'
end

Package Management

Add or remove .deb files.

reprepro_deb '/tmp/example_1.0.0_amd64.deb' do
  distribution 'noble'
  action :add
end

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Backers

Thank you to all our backers!

Dependent cookbooks

apache2 >= 9.0

nginx >= 12.0

Contingent cookbooks

reprepro Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the reprepro cookbook.

3.0.0 (2026-05-19)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

migrate reprepro to custom resources (#88)

Features

migrate reprepro to custom resources (#88) (d9e3af3)

Bug Fixes

ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#83) (ade0f3a)

2.1.4 (2025-10-16)

Bug Fixes

ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#83) (ade0f3a)

2.1.0 - 2023-10-03

Migrate repo to Sous-Chefs

2.0.5 - 2023-10-03

resolved cookstyle error: .foodcritic:3:7 convention: Layout/TrailingEmptyLines

2.0.3 - 2022-02-08

Remove delivery folder

2.0.2 - 2021-08-31

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

2.0.0 (2020-05-05)

Minimum Chef version 14
resolved cookstyle error: recipes/default.rb:26:22 convention: Style/HashEachMethods
Require Chef Infra Client 14+ and remove the need for the build-essential cookbook
Remove unnecessary long_description metadata from metadata.rb
Remove unnecessary recipe metadata from metadata.rb
Migrate to actions

v1.1.0 (2019-08-08)

Migrate to circleci 2 orb
Fix for setting apache listen attribute

v1.0.0 (2018-05-08)

Remove compat_resource usage and require Chef 13+ instead
Use build_essential resource not the recipe to allow this to run without the cookbook on chef 14+
Convert the resource from a LWRP to a custom new_resource
Switch from chef_nginx to nginx cookbook and update the nginx_site usage for the new nginx_site custom resource
Use the correct action for ruby_block to resolve foodcritic warnings
Don't manually update the convert status on the resource. Let Chef do this the right way
Properly set the name_property on the resource
Property set the distribution default value in the resource
Switch from symbols to strings in the templates to resolve warnings

v0.5.0 (2017-05-31)

Turned on use_inline_resource in the provider
Switched from nginx to chef_nginx
Set reasonable minimum versions of the required cookbooks
Increased the required chef release to 12.1+
Added source_url, issues_url, and chef_version to the metadata
Removed "suggests" metadata as this doesn't actually do anything
Updated notification to the Chef 10+ syntax
Added a test cookbook that includes both apache and nginx testing
Swapped apt cookbook for compat_resource on older chef releases
Stopped including the default apt cookbook within the recipe. Getting apt-update run is outside the scope of this cookbook. It should be done in a base recipe with the apt_update resource
Fixed the apache listen attribute to use the current attribute name
Stopped using node.set, which is deprecated
Removed test gems from the Gemfile
Added a Delivery local mode config for simple testing
Setup Travis CI to use ChefDK and kitchen-dokken for integration testing
Switched from rubocop to cookstyle
Switched from kitchen-docker to kitchen-dokken

v0.4.2 (2015-11-20)

Remove Opscode/Chef as the maintainer.
Updated Travis to run full integration tests with kitchen-docker
Added Chef default .rubocop.yml file and resolved all warnings
Reformatted readme and set the minimum required Chef release to 11.0
Added basic Chefspec to test the converge
Add chefignore to limit files uploaded to the Chef server
Updated Berksfile format and removed yum, which wasn't actually required
Removed the Chef contributing doc that isn't valid anymore
Updated development deps in the Gemfile
Update .gitignore to the chef default

v0.4.1

Allow option to use nginx (thanks gilles)

v0.4.0

Support multiple distribution releases

v0.3.0

[COOK-2111] - Add LWRP for reprepro interactions. Allow attribute driven configuration

v0.2.4

[COOK-922] - add allow to data bag
Update the readme with data bag info

Collaborator Number Metric

3.0.0 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Cookstyle Metric

3.0.0 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric

3.0.0 passed this metric

Testing File Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number

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reprepro Cookbook

Help Wanted

Maintainers

Requirements

Platforms

Chef

Cookbooks

Resources

Migration

Repository

Web Servers

Package Management

Contributors

Backers

Sponsors

Dependent cookbooks

Contingent cookbooks

reprepro Cookbook CHANGELOG

3.0.0 (2026-05-19)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

Features

Bug Fixes

2.1.4 (2025-10-16)

Bug Fixes

2.1.0 - 2023-10-03

2.0.5 - 2023-10-03

2.0.3 - 2022-02-08

2.0.2 - 2021-08-31

2.0.0 (2020-05-05)

v1.1.0 (2019-08-08)

v1.0.0 (2018-05-08)

v0.5.0 (2017-05-31)

v0.4.2 (2015-11-20)

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v0.4.0

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v0.2.4

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Cookstyle Metric 3.0.0 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric 3.0.0 passed this metric

Testing File Metric 3.0.0 failed this metric Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric 3.0.0 failed this metric Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number

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Updated May 19, 2026 Created on August 27, 2010

Supported Platforms

License

Required Chef Infra Client

reprepro (20) Versions 3.0.0 Follow5

Collaborator Number Metric

3.0.0 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Cookstyle Metric

3.0.0 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric

3.0.0 passed this metric

Testing File Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number