Aptcheckr

New project started!

I started a new project called aptcheckr. Aptcheckr is a command line tool to verify apt repositories. It’s based in libapt and verifies that all apt repository metadata is compliant with the Debian policy, and that the package set is consistent, i.e. all dependencies and source packages are available.

Why is is needed?

Debian is a great base for building custom embedded Linux distributions, because it supports a huge amount of architectures, and provides very long support for the packages. This reduces the burden of maintaining an embedded Linux solution a lot.

I build my own derived distribution using aptly, which works quite good, but I have no way to verify that my selected set of packages is valid, i.e. all dependencies are available and the packages fit together according to their metadata. This gap shall be closed using aptcheckr.

In addition, it would be cool to have a tool which can verify if two apt repositories are compatible. Maybe this can be also closed by aptcheckr.