host own pacman repo with apache web server

Question

I want to host my own ArchLinux pacman repository for my own packages. I already found out, I can simply create a repo by just using repo-add and if I upload the generated foo.db.tar.gz and its symlink to my webserver, I can access this repo by just adding the following lines to my /etc/pacman.conf

[foo]
Server = http://example.com/foo/

But when I now add another package to the repo and again upload the foo.db.tar.gz to the web server, then run pacman -Syy and try to install the new package with pacman -S bar, the package can't be found.

Also, if I just run pacman -Sy, pacman tells me, there are no changes for my own repo.

So, what is wrong with my configuration? I think my apache has to be configured in a special way, but I can't find any hint on the web. Any idea?

Note: the apache web server runs on a ubuntu linux server

Answer 1

My fault. For any reason the foo.db file (which is a symlink generated by repo-add and links to foo.db.tar.gz) was copied as regular file and not as a symlink. So, after updating foo.db.tar.gz on the server I still had the old tar.gz on the server, called foo.db.

So I removed foo.db and replaced it with a symlink and everything's fine now.