Show HN: Packagecloud – Hosted Package Repositories
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Show HN: Packagecloud – Hosted Package Repositories
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Re: Show HN: Packagecloud – Hosted Package Repositories
#2Nice! I could see myself paying for such a service, if the need should arise in the future.
Re: Show HN: Packagecloud – Hosted Package Repositories
#3I am using it, works great. I tried a couple other similar services and they were slightly more complicated than I wanted--packagecloud is simple and straightforward. Also I like the clean design of the site.
Re: Show HN: Packagecloud – Hosted Package Repositories
#4Neat, on the Perl side of things there's also Stratopan.
I'm guessing there are a few other similar platform specific services out there as well.
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#5Puppet and Chef support are a nice touch!
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#6Who is supposed to be willing to pay for this? Is it intended as a replacement for apt on Debian-based systems?
It says "apt, yum, and rubygems repositories without the headaches". If I'm already using apt repositories without headaches, is this not for me?
Re: Show HN: Packagecloud – Hosted Package Repositories
#7Who is supposed to be willing to pay for this? Is it intended as a replacement for apt on Debian-based systems? It says "apt, yum, and rubygems repositories without the headaches". If I'm already using apt repositories without headaches, is this not for me?
Are you running your own apt repositories?
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#8Who is supposed to be willing to pay for this? Is it intended as a replacement for apt on Debian-based systems? It says "apt, yum, and rubygems repositories without the headaches". If I'm already using apt repositories without headaches, is this not for me?
Hi!
Just for fun: man reprepro and search for 'corrupt' :)
You can use all your normal tools to upgrade, install, and remove packages as you normally would. So, for, Debian-based systems, apt-get upgrade, install, remove, etc all work as you expect.
We provide SSL, gpg, and fine-grained access control all out of the box. Fine-grained access control doesn't really exist with reprepro or createrepo or other tools and you'd have to build it yourself.
Also, you don't need to worry about backups, the numerous bugs in all the repo creation tools, and we have chef and puppet modules to help deploy this across your infrastructure.
We have support for multiple linux distributions in a single repo (quite a pain to deal with yourself) and best of all we also support pushing multiple versions of a single package to a repo -- something that reprepro does not support, but has been in progress for ~4 years [1].
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570623
Re: Show HN: Packagecloud – Hosted Package Repositories
#9Who is supposed to be willing to pay for this? Is it intended as a replacement for apt on Debian-based systems? It says "apt, yum, and rubygems repositories without the headaches". If I'm already using apt repositories without headaches, is this not for me?
This is aimed at the people who think AWS is well priced and outsourcing every part of your infrastructure makes you more hip/agile/"safe"
Re: Show HN: Packagecloud – Hosted Package Repositories
#10Who is supposed to be willing to pay for this? Is it intended as a replacement for apt on Debian-based systems? It says "apt, yum, and rubygems repositories without the headaches". If I'm already using apt repositories without headaches, is this not for me?
This is aimed at the people who think AWS is well priced and outsourcing every part of your infrastructure makes you more hip/agile/"safe"
Check out my above comment and feel free to ping me via email or twitter. Would love to get more detailed feedback from you and maybe try to change your mind!