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Install a F-Droid Repo Server on FreeBSD

Added by Daniel Curtis almost 9 years ago. Updated almost 9 years ago.

Status:
Suspended
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Daniel Curtis
Category:
Package Management
Target version:
FreeBSD 9
Start date:
01/31/2016
Due date:
% Done:

30%

Estimated time:
2.00 h
Spent time:
1.50 h

Description

This is a guide on installing the F-Droid server to serve a local android package repository on FreeBSD 9.

NOTE: Due to the lack of support for the Android SDK on FreeBSD, the F-Droid Repo does not work as expected. -3/12/16

Prepare the Environment

  • Make sure the system is up to date:
    pkg update && pkg upgrade
  • Install a few dependencies:
    pkg install git python2 py27-pip py27-virtualenv bash jpeg openjdk
  • Add the fdroid user
    pw add user -n fdroid -m -s /bin/sh -c "F-Droid"

Install Android SDK

WARNING: The Android SDK is not supported on FreeBSD. Don't expect it to work out of the box.

  • Download Android SDK:
    fetch http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz

Install F-Droid Server

  • Switch to the fdroid user:
    su - fdroid
  • Clone the fdroid source:
    git clone https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver.git
  • Install the fdroid server:
    cd fdroidserver
virtualenv env/
source env/bin/activate
pip install -e .
python2 setup.py install
  • Exit from the fdroid user back into the root user:
    exit

Install Nginx

  • Install nginx:
    pkg install nginx
  • Start and enable nginx at boot:
    echo 'nginx_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service nginx start
  • Create a configuration directory to make managing individual server blocks easier
    mkdir /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d
  • Edit the main nginx config file:
    vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
    • And strip down the config file and add the include statement at the end to make it easier to handle various server blocks:
      worker_processes  1;
error_log  /var/log/nginx-error.log;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    # Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
    include /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

Setup F-Droid Repo

  • Create the fdroid repository directory:
    mkdir -p /usr/local/www/fdroid.example.com/fdroid
chown -R fdroid:www /usr/local/www/fdroid.example.com
  • Create the fdroid server block config file:
    vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/fdroid.example.com.conf
    • And add the following:
      server {
      listen 80 default_server;
      server_name fdroid.example.com;
      autoindex on;
      access_log /var/log/fdroid.example.com.log main;

      location / {
      root /usr/local/www/fdroid.example.com;
      index index.html index.htm;
      }
      }

Initialize the F-Droid Repo

  • Switch to the fdroid user:
    su - fdroid
  • Initialize a bare F-Droid repository:
    cd /usr/local/www/fdroid.example.com/fdroid
fdroid init

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