How do I add a custom package to debian repository?

Question

I run my own debian apt repository server. I have a .deb file that i would like to add into the repository (Adaptec Storage Manager deb). I need the ability to manage that package independent of the rest of the repo.

Question:

How can I add the .deb file to the repo so that I can do a 'apt-get storman' on the client machines and have it installed?

Solution

Set up a separate repo for your local packages. It just makes sense, as observed by vonbrand and thecarpy.

Comments

[sunnysideup]

It depends what repository you are using (check the man page) but with reprepo it should be something like reprepo -b . include $CODENAME $CHANGES

[Bananguin]

and even without a changes file, reprepo can add/remove single .deb archives

[Gilles 'SO- stop being evil']

Do you mean you're currently running a mirror? If it's not a mirror, where are the packages in your existing repository coming from and how do you manage them?

[slappyjam]

Yes, we are running am mirror.

[thecarpy]

I side with @vonbrand, use a separate repo for packages not in the repo you mirror from, segregation is, imho, much more manageable and the overhead minimal.