On Thu, 30 May 2024 21:52:19 +0200
Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???> wrote:

> On Thursday 30 May 2024 at 21:47:20, tito via Dng wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 30 May 2024 18:06:02 +0200 Antony Stone wrote:
> > >
> > > Would anyone mind explaining to me how the Devuan package repository
> > > works?
>
> > Hi,
> > you need to install apache to serve the packages to the other machines
> > and create a repo with this instructions (that need to be re-run
> > every time you add/remove packages):
>
> Indeed - thanks - however I've set up my own repository before (following very
> much the instructions you gave, as far as I recall). It was the "passthrough"
> magic which amprolla does which had eluded me.

I think you can emulate "passthrough" with pinning If you need
a simpler homemade solution.

Ciao,
Tito

>
> Thanks also to everyone who's pointed me at that magic.
>
>
> Antony,
>