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Introduction Conda is a popular package and environment management system primarily used with Python. It’s widely used in data science, scientific computing, AI, and bioinformatics, because it facilitates portability and reproducibility of (data) science workflows. However, if your team needs to host private Conda packages, the typical recommendation is to build and manage your own Conda channel. While self-hosting a Conda channel is possible, it requires ongoing maintenance and infrastructure costs. Surprisingly, major package managers like Artifactory and PackageCloud don’t natively support Conda. ...

This tutorial covers: Creating a simple Debian package using fpm Uploading it to a private APT repository on RepoForge.io Installing it from RepoForge in a Docker container Step 1 – Create a Debian package For this tutorial, we are going to make a simple hello world application. First, let’s create a working directory called hello, and add a subfolder called usr inside it, then another subfolder called bin inside that. Then, we’re going to add a file called hello inside of the bin folder. Your folder structure should look like this: ...

This tutorial shows you how to configure uv to install Python packages from a private PyPI repository on RepoForge.io. What is uv? uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust by Astral (the creators of Ruff). It’s a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools that’s 10-100x faster. Prerequisites A RepoForge.io account Your RepoForge repository URL (found under Show me how to publish packages) An access token with Python read permissions A package already published to your RepoForge repository Installing uv Install uv using the official installer: ...

This tutorial shows how to automatically build and publish Python packages to a private repository using GitLab CI/CD. By the end, every tagged commit will trigger a pipeline that packages your code and uploads it to RepoForge.io. Prerequisites A RepoForge.io account (free trial works for this tutorial) A GitLab account A recent version of Python 3 Basic familiarity with git Step 1 — Create the folder structure Create an empty folder for your project and add a subfolder for your package code: ...

This tutorial shows you how to publish Python packages built with Poetry to a private PyPI repository on RepoForge.io. Prerequisites A RepoForge.io account Your RepoForge repository URL (found under Show me how to publish packages) An access token with Python write permissions Installing Poetry Install Poetry using the official installer: curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - Verify the installation: poetry --version Creating a Package in Poetry Now that poetry is installed you can create a poetry project like this: ...

This tutorial shows you how to automatically publish Python, Docker, and NPM packages to RepoForge.io using the official GitHub Action. Step 1: Create a GitHub repository You can refer to the example here to see a valid repository setup that works with the options described below. Step 2: Get Your RepoForge.io Credentials Log into your RepoForge.io account and: Find your Hash ID on your account dashboard. (You will use this in package URLs.) ...