It says "apt, yum, and rubygems repositories without the headaches". If I'm already using apt repositories without headaches, is this not for me?
Just for fun: man reprepro and search for 'corrupt' :)
You can use all your normal tools to upgrade, install, and remove packages as you normally would. So, for, Debian-based systems, apt-get upgrade, install, remove, etc all work as you expect.
We provide SSL, gpg, and fine-grained access control all out of the box. Fine-grained access control doesn't really exist with reprepro or createrepo or other tools and you'd have to build it yourself.
Also, you don't need to worry about backups, the numerous bugs in all the repo creation tools, and we have chef and puppet modules to help deploy this across your infrastructure.
We have support for multiple linux distributions in a single repo (quite a pain to deal with yourself) and best of all we also support pushing multiple versions of a single package to a repo -- something that reprepro does not support, but has been in progress for ~4 years [1].
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570623
Edit: to be less snarky
I've already thought to myself, "I could roll this into the open source packages in question in 2-4 weeks in time, give back to the community, AND it helps my reputation." Consider how many others out there have seen this and thought the same.
As a tech professional, I don't think you're going to find much demand. As an entrepreneur, I wish you the best.
If so, it should be pretty straightforward to make an AMI or other machine image that does this (and I'd be surprised if it doesn't exist).
host us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com is an alias for us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com.
us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-1-w.amazonaws.com.
I'm guessing there are a few other similar platform specific services out there as well.
