Sparrow Repositories

Sparrow repositories store distributable Sparrow tasks packaged as plugins.

Repositories types

There are two types of repositories:

• Remote

Http / Ftp / Rsync based repositories

• Local

Local files system based repositories

Public http repository

http://repo.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com is a public repository with many Sparrow6 plugins.

Create repository

One need to create repository root directory:

repo_root=/var/repo
mkdir $repo_root

And then initialize the directory using Sparrow6 cli:

s6 --repo-init $repo_root

Then just checkout plugins source code from scm and upload to the repository:

git clone https://github.com/melezhik/sparrow-plugins

export SP6_REPO=file://$repo_root

cd sparrow-plugins

find -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 2 -name sparrow.json -execdir s6 --upload \;

The process of creation of remote repositories follows the same logic, with only difference that one need to maintain serving repository index and files through web/ftp/rsync server.

For example for http based repository one can choose nginx web server with root directory equal to repository root:

listen 192.168.0.1:80;

location / {
    root /var/repo/
}

To use remote repository simple set SP6_REPO variable:

export SP6_REPO=http://192.168.0.1

See also

Plugins

Author

Alexey Melezhik

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