FPF Tools APT packages LFS repo

This repository holds packages served on packages.freedom.press. Currently, this includes Dangerzone.

Prerequisites

• git-lfs to store large files.

• reprepro to update the local Debian repo:

  • To install from source, try this repo.

  • Alternatively, build a container image using the Dockerfile in this repo:

    docker build -t apt-tools-prod-builder .
    

• zstd, for newer Ubuntu distributions and future Debian distributions (this has not been thoroughly tested yet).

Usage

• Set up a machine with the GPG key used for signing Release files.

• Commit new package files to each suite in dangerzone. You may want to prune older versions as new ones are released, to keep the repo manageable.

• Run ./tools/publish, to populate the Debian database.

  • You can run this part in a Docker container:

    docker run --rm -v .:/home/user/apt-tools-prod apt-tools-prod-builder ./tools/publish
    

• Run ./tools/publish --sign to sign the release files. This part must run on an environment that has access to the private PGP key.

• Commit the results, and create a PR.

When PRs are merged, packages.freedom.press will pull new files and serve the contents of repo/public.

Adding a new distribution

• Add a new folder inside dangerzone, named after the distribution version
• Update the repo/conf/distributions file and add your distrbution version.