First gather all the packages that you want to put in your repository. I normally install a fresh Ubuntu on vmware to start with. Then I update the installation and install the packages I need. Once done, I take all required packages from apt cache and use those (so that I have full upgrade path with required dependencies). For the purposes of this tutorial, let’s pretend we want to mirros apache2 with all dependencies and an upgrade of Ubuntu install (a snapshot you could say).
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Jan 29