Private github repo support?

[casperthulebd]

I would like to create a private github repository that hosts some manifests.
According to https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/if6it1/winget_local_repo/ it should be possible.

I have tried to create a private repository and copied the eclipse adoptium jdk 8 manifests file in there, similar to the structure here:
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests

The question is now - how do I add this repository to winget?
I have tried
Winget source add --name test https://github.com/<OWNER>/<REPO>/tree/master/manifests --header "Authorization: token <TOKEN>"

However, the response is:

Ignoring the optional header as it is not applicable for this source.
Adding source:
  test -> https://github.com/<OWNER>/REPO/tree/master/manifests
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x80190194 : Not found (404).

I am guessing that either I am missing something completely, such as:
I need to do something similar to https://github.com/cloudflightio/winget-pkgs/tree/main/.github/workflows
or the URL is wrong.

[Trenly]

I would like to create a private github repository that hosts some manifests. According to reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/if6it1/winget_local_repo it should be possible.

I have tried to create a private repository and copied the eclipse adoptium jdk 8 manifests file in there, similar to the structure here: microsoft/winget-pkgs@master/manifests

The question is now - how do I add this repository to winget? I have tried Winget source add --name test https://github.com/<OWNER>/<REPO>/tree/master/manifests --header "Authorization: token <TOKEN>"

However, the response is:

Ignoring the optional header as it is not applicable for this source.
Adding source:
  test -> https://github.com/<OWNER>/REPO/tree/master/manifests
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x80190194 : Not found (404).

I am guessing that either I am missing something completely, such as: I need to do something similar to cloudflightio/winget-pkgs@main/.github/workflows or the URL is wrong.

The Winget-Pkgs repository has an azure pipeline that compiles the manifests into a Pre-Indexed package. It's the msix package that is created which is used as the source. The other option would be to set up a Rest API to serve the manifest contents. I'm not familiar with how to set up either a Pre-Indexed source or a Rest source, but perhaps microsoft/winget-cli-restsourcei has documentation that may help

[casperthulebd]

Ahh, this was the missing piece:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61916158/structure-of-winget-source-repositories

It is possible to deploy a msix and thereby avoid having the rest api.

I am still a bit unsure of whether it has to be hosted as github pages as cloudflightio does or it can be directly in the repository. If directly in the repository, then how do I reference it? Through https://api.github.com/repos///contents/<PATH_TO_FOLDER_WITH_SOURCE_MSIX> with
--header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw'?

[denelon]

The REST API is the only documented method for standing up a private repository.

[mherrmann]

You can try https://winget.Pro. It's a private repository implementation that can be hosted for you, or deployed in your own infrastructure via its open source version. (I'm one of the authors of this service.)

[vedantmgoyal9]

@casperthulebd you can see https://github.com/PckgrBot/winget-pkgs-private. It uses Vercel for APIs and https://neon.tech for storing metadata about packages. I'll add documentation soon, but until then I'll be happy to to help you set it up.

[Karl-WE]

@denelon what's the best method / docs using winget with either

• on local SMB fileshare
• Azure Files

This is becoming a FAQ from customers, which do not only rely on Intune but want to embrace the upcoming Windows Server integration.

Looking for a solution on this and what I have found is anything but straight forward. Noted winget.pro and other paid solution, but LOB I would need are still missing and they want to host it on their own without additional licensing costs.

[mherrmann]

winget.pro is open source so you absolutely can host it on your own without additional licensing costs.

[Karl-WE]

@denelon what's the best method / docs using winget with either

• on local SMB fileshare
• Azure Files

This is becoming a FAQ from customers, which do not only rely on Intune but want to embrace the upcoming Windows Server integration.

Looking for a solution on this and what I have found is anything but straight forward. I noticed winget.pro but LOB I would need are still missing.

Wouldn't be too bad if there was a "one-click" deployment of such a private repository available from Azure Marketplace that puts everything together via bicep or sorts.

remote related #619

[denelon]

@Karl-WE we're looking into an Azure Marketplace offer for the WinGet source to make this exact scenario easier to deploy. We've also got work to do for making a source easier to manage. We need to add a REST source as a target for wingetcreate, and we're looking into making a Microsoft.WinGet.Source PowerShell module so one could "Export-WinGetPackage" and subsequently "Publish-WinGetPackage". I'm also thinking we will want some kind of a "Modify" cmdlet so the installer could be copied to an enterprise managed location and the manifest could be modified to point to that URL.

[Karl-WE]

@mherrmann thanks for the offer. How could we host LOB apps like Swyx MSI, Acrobat + MST, Infor MSI + MST, etc.

[mherrmann]

@Karl-WE you can just upload them through winget.Pro's web interface or API.