Add a Package Repository

It’s possible to add your own apt repositories as sources for build-packages and stage-packages, including those hosted on a PPA, the Personal Package Archive, which serves personally hosted non-standard packages, and those hosted on the UCA, the Ubuntu Cloud Archive.

Third-party repositories can be added to the project file of a Craft Application (like Snapcraft, Rockcraft, or Charmcraft) by using the top-level package-repositories keyword with either a PPA-type repository, an UCA-type repository or a deb-type repository:

PPA-type repository:

package-repositories:
 - type: apt
   ppa: snappy-dev/snapcraft-daily

UCA-type repository:

package-repositories:
 - type: apt
   cloud: antelope
   pocket: updates

deb-type repository:

package-repositories:
  - type: apt
    components: [main]
    suites: [xenial]
    key-id: 78E1918602959B9C59103100F1831DDAFC42E99D
    url: http://ppa.launchpad.net/snappy-dev/snapcraft-daily/ubuntu

As shown above, PPA-type repositories, UCA-type repositories and traditional deb-type each require a different set of properties.

• PPA-type properties

• UCA-type properties

• deb-type properties

Once configured, packages provided by these repositories will become available via stage-packages and build-packages.