[bin] Added a script for creating a local Debian repository.

bin/createdebrepo.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+'''This script can be created on a Linux machine for creating a local Debian
+(binary) repository.'''
+
+import os, os.path
+
+# Packages apache2 and dpkg-dev must be installed on the machine for enabling
+# the Debian repository.
+repoFolder = '/var/www/debianrepo'
+
+# Create the repo folder if it does not exist
+binaryFolder = os.path.join(repoFolder, 'binary')
+if not os.path.exists(binaryFolder):
+    os.makedirs(binaryFolder)
+
+# Create the script that will allow to recompute indexes when packages are
+# added or updated into the repository.
+refreshScript = '''#!/bin/bash
+cd %s
+echo "(Re-)building indexes for binary packages..."
+dpkg-scanpackages binary /dev/null | gzip -9c > binary/Packages.gz
+echo "Done."
+''' % repoFolder
+
+curdir = os.getcwd()
+os.chdir(repoFolder)
+scriptName = os.path.join(repoFolder, 'refresh.sh')
+if not os.path.exists(scriptName):
+    f = file(scriptName, 'w')
+    f.write(refreshScript)
+    f.close()
+os.system('chmod -R 755 %s' % repoFolder)
+os.chdir(curdir)
+print 'Repository created.'
+