I built my own 3rd Party Synology Package Repository

[DaveR]

As I now have 4 Synology packages I decided I needed a package repository that users can add to Package Center.




Package Center even shows the download count


I intend updating it so other creators of Synology packages can get their packages listed to make it easier for users to install and update the packages.

 

[Benares]

Just added your Package Source, it works, thanks.
But I stopped your Speedtest-Packages for now. They (or one of them) seem to disturb Disk-Hibernation even when I don't use them. Is this possible? May be it's better to install them on a NVME-Volume.

 

[luddi]

@DaveR Very nice! Appreciate it

 

[DaveR]

@Benares
Can you run them one a time to work out which speedtest package, or packages, wake your HDDs?

 

[DaveR]

@Tommes
Where did you get the file layout for your package source? Is it a common layout that other 3rd party packages often use?
I notice it has INFO.conf which is just a conf file in the repo's root.

My package repos use a workflow to build the spk files when I create a new release. The workflow uses https://github.com/007revad/synology-package-builder which builds the INFO file from package.json (which obviously is a json file )


To add someone's package to my spk repository I'd just need:

1. GitHub username.
2. Repo name.
3. PACKAGE-ICON.PNG location.
4. INFO location and type (conf or json).

For point 3 it would be better if they had a 120×120 PNG thumbnail named <Package-Id>_120.png where <Package-Id> is packagename from INFO.

I see that I'd need to add support for for different language packagenames.

Ideally you may also want to add a workflow that notifies my spk repository when you create a new release. Though my spk repository does check at 2am each day for any new spk files on repos that it monitors so adding a workflow is optional.

I have enough information to add your package to my spk repository, so you can relax and wait for it to happen

 

[luddi]

The update notification is available directly from the package center. Very nice! Good job @DaveR

 

[DaveR]

It's alive!



Looking at the download count for LogAnalysis and Syno Smart Info makes me little sad for my packages.

• LogAnalysis Download count: 1,486
• Syno Smart Info Download count: 1,838