Once you have published your repository to S3, you probably want to actually use it! This will require setting up apt clients to subscribe to your repository.
For recent versions of Ubuntu Linux (Xenial Xerus/16.04 and later), you can use the apt-transport-s3 package. The package is also available in the 'sid` distribution for Debian GNU/Linux.
If your distribution does not natively package apt-transport-s3, you can build it yourself from the github source
$ apt-get install -y apt-transport-s3
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Once installed, you can configure a Repoman S3 repository like any other,
by adding it to /etc/apt/sources.list or to a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d:
deb s3://repoman-demobucket.s3.amazonaws.com/ xenial main
Note that the format of the url is s3://BUCKETNAME.s3.amazonaws.com/
Note that you will also need to configure an /etc/apt/s3auth.conf file:
AccessKeyId = AKIAIABCDEFGU5YCSTQ
SecretAccessKey = m47irsasdjk+sfdhC/KWaAmFasdklw2EajhgC1wX9N
Token =
If you are operating in an environment where the access role is
provided for you automatically (e.g. from an EC2 Instance Profile
or an ECS Task Role) you can leave the values in s3auth.conf
blank, but the key names must still be in the file:
AccessKeyId =
SecretAccessKey =
Token =
Alternatively, if you configure your repository to be publicly accessible you can skip the apt-transport-s3 package entirely and use the standard https transport:
deb http://repoman-demobucket.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ xenial main