GitHub Pages can publish a site in two ways: from a branch, or from a GitHub Actions workflow. For an APT repository the difference matters more than for a website: where the .deb files live, where the signing key lives, and how the repository grows over time. Both approaches, their trade-offs, and when to pick which.
Category: Debian
Zoom ships .deb files but no APT repository. zoom-ubuntu-repo fills the gap in two ways: a self-hosted repository built by a cron job, and a GitHub-hosted one where the index lives on GitHub Pages while apt downloads the packages straight from Zoom’s CDN. How it works, where the files live, and how to set it up on Debian/Ubuntu.
I’ve been running my nextcloud instance for quite some years now, and I finally decided to change its authentication from LDAP to SAML for a better single sign on experience. By using keycloak as IdP there’ll also be an option to enable multi factor authentication (MFA) for all connected applications at once. Where I come […]
Some time ago I ran into trouble while installing debian packages (something went wrong and a few packages claimed to be installed – their corresponding files however didn’t make it to disk). While I was able to fix most of them from time to time I still got random errors that – after some investigation […]