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devuan repo / description

A Devuan repository is an collection of deb packages (archives of the deb format) .

devuan repo / relation to devuan distribution

A Devuan distribution is (i think) as concept has more dynamic connotations. For example , a user can say that zie has a Devuan distribution in zer info-processing device. And by that we mean many more things than simple a repository.

The devuan repository is accessible from the internet through various mirrors.

Read also about Devuan package repositories in devuan.org link

To learn about a Devuan repository we must have access to one. In the early days of linux distributions that would be a set of CDROMS. In our era (2020s) is a internet accessible repo.

deb.devuan.org

devuan repo / files

Basically we expect to find files that are archives of .deb type.

devuan repo / structure

http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/dists/ (here are dirs for each distro version) 

 
[DIR]	1.0/	2019-12-02 21:41 	- 	 
[DIR]	2.0/	2019-12-02 21:41 	- 	 
[DIR]	3.0/	2019-12-02 21:41 	- 	 
[DIR]	4.0/	2020-01-07 15:38 	- 	 
[DIR]	5.0/	2021-07-09 12:39 	- 	 
[DIR]	6.0/	2023-03-29 16:26 	- 	 

[DIR]	daedalus-backports/	2023-05-25 20:15 	- 	 
[DIR]	daedalus-proposed-updates/	2023-03-29 20:15 	- 	 
[DIR]	daedalus-security/	2023-05-25 20:15 	- 	 
[DIR]	daedalus-updates/	2023-05-25 20:15 	- 	 
[DIR]	daedalus/	2021-07-09 12:39 	- 	 


[DIR]  stable-backports/	2023-05-25 20:15 	- 	 
[DIR]	stable-proposed-updates/	2023-03-29 20:15 	- 	 
[DIR]	stable-security/	2023-05-25 20:15 	- 	 
[DIR]	stable-updates/	2023-05-25 20:15 	- 	 
[DIR]	stable/	2021-07-09 12:39 	- 	 
[DIR]	testing/	2023-03-29 16:26 	- 	 
[DIR]	unstable/	2019-12-02 21:37

Those two locations are the same:

http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/ (presumably that location has Devuan maintained deb packages that 

                                     are referenced by various subsections of the devuan distribution).

devuan repo / files / Packages.gz

Inspecting the "Packages" file we see that it contains a stanza describing each package; the first field in each stanza is the formal package name. @

In:

devuan repo / files / Contents-μarc.gz