Show HN: OpenAPT first release – Automate your APT repositories layouts

This looks awesome. I&#x27;ll need to try this out. I&#x27;ve used aptly to create repos before. Here are my ansible scripts:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BigSense&#x2F;vSense&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ansible&#x2F;roles&#x2F;repo&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;apt.yml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BigSense&#x2F;vSense&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ansible&#x2F;roles...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BigSense&#x2F;vSense&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ansible&#x2F;roles&#x2F;repo&#x2F;templates&#x2F;aptly.conf.j2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BigSense&#x2F;vSense&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ansible&#x2F;roles...</a><p>Publishing was kinda a nightmare:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BigSense&#x2F;vSense&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ansible&#x2F;roles&#x2F;build&#x2F;templates&#x2F;ltsense.jenkins.xml.j2#L53" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BigSense&#x2F;vSense&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ansible&#x2F;roles...</a><p>It&#x27;s still using the very old Jenkins pipelines (the server is gone now so none of that even works) and a config management system that&#x27;s long dead. I desperately need to rewrite it and this looks like a good starting point for at least the deb repos!

Nice!<p>A few years ago a coworker wrote a similar thing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;queeno&#x2F;aptlify" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;queeno&#x2F;aptlify</a>).<p>Unfortunately it seems to be abandoned at this point, so I do hope your project gets the tracktion it needs!

My brain parses all caps ‘APT’ as ‘advanced persistent threat’.<p>In regards to the package manager, doesn’t OpenAPT imply a closed apt? Is that a thing?

I think most people would be better off abandoning Apt or RPM and use containers, Snap, AppImage or switch to a distro like Arch&#x2F;Alpine.