Repomaker is back! After a bit of work, Repomaker is back again. Below are some of the major updates

• Update fdroidserver to fdroidserver 2.3.2
• Update Django to Django to 4.2
• Integration of rclone to allow people deploy to multiple cloud services.
• Ability to share your repo on appiverse.io

To test out the current version, check out the demo instance at https://repomakerdemo.fdroid.net

Test it out and report errors you encounter.

Self-host Repomaker

For now, the quickest way to run it locally or on your own infrastructure is through docker. To do so, follow the steps below

• Install docker as described at Install Docker Engine | Docker Docs

• Follow the post-installation steps as described at Linux post-installation steps for Docker Engine | Docker Docs if on Linux

• Install docker compose as described at Overview of installing Docker Compose | Docker Docs

• Create a directory of your choice (e.g. repomaker) to hold the docker-compose.yml and .env files.

  Move to the directory you created

  mkdir repomaker cd repomaker

• Download docker-compose.yml and .env by running the following commands:

  Get docker-compose.yml file

  wget -O docker-compose.yml https://gitlab.com/fdroid/repomaker/-/raw/master/docker/docker-compose.yml

  Get .env file

  wget -O .env https://gitlab.com/fdroid/repomaker/-/raw/master/docker/.env

• Populate the .env file with custom values .Below are the default environmental variables

  Please enter your hostname here

  REPOMAKER_HOSTNAME=abc-repomaker-test.org

  Here all repomaker related files (including the database) will be stored

  REPOMAKER_PATH=/var/lib/repomaker

  The local port repomaker will listen on the host machine

  REPOMAKER_PORT=80

  Warning: Changing this later will change all repo locations in default storage

  REPOMAKER_SECRET_KEY=

  You usually do not need to change this

  DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=repomaker.settings_docker

  Uncomment to allow password-less connections to the database

  https://djangoforprofessionals.com/postgresql/#postgresql

  #POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust

  CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS is needed for Django 4

  To avoid CSRF verification failed. Request aborted error

  CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS="https://${REPOMAKER_HOSTNAME}"

For a quick set-up, uncomment the line POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD to be true in your .env file. If you are going to actually serve apps from it, read on how to secure postgres here: Chapter 3: PostgreSQL — Django for Professionals | LearnDjango.com

The REPOMAKER_HOSTNAME variable can either be a domain name or the ip address of the machine running repomaker.

The REPOMAKER_SECRET_KEY can be generated with the command echo "REPOMAKER_SECRET_KEY=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 64 | head -n 1)" .Please replace this in the .env file above.

• Start the containers by running the command below

  docker compose up -d

• Access the repomaker instance by going to the REPOMAKER_HOSTNAME you set in the .env above. You should see the webpage below

• Sign up then log in and enjoy Repomaker. Congratulations!