There’s a new tool out there that we would like to introduce to our Arch Linux power users who are already familiar with the complexities of AUR packaging and maintaining.
While digging through the Internet, we’ve discovered the arch-ppa utility, which appeared on GitHub a few weeks ago, created by Ryan McGuire, promising to help you create and maintain a personal Arch Linux package repository that is secure and safe for users to use.
Think of arch-ppa like a DIY PPA (Personal Package Archive), in the style PPAs are used on the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, but hosted by you, on your own terms, either locally or on a server that you have access to and they allow you to distribute packages to hundreds of thousands of possible Arch Linux users.
arch-ppa was created because AUR is not all that secure
arch-ppa developer Ryan McGuire says that he created this utility to help the Arch Linux personal packaging ecosystem be more secure than it i… (read more)
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