# Gitea package registry?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gitea-package-registry/100827>\
**Category:** Package Management\
**Created:** [June 26, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gitea-package-registry/100827 "2023-06-26T04:14:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![tecosaur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tecosaur/32/23206_2.png) [@tecosaur](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tecosaur)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gitea-package-registry/100827/1 "2023-06-26T04:14:52Z")

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`LocalRegistry.jl` is nice, but I’m wondering if the effort required to maintain a local registry could be reduced even further by using Gitea’s [Package Registry](https://docs.gitea.com/packages/usage/packages/overview).

You can see the currently supported registries (npm, PyPi, etc.) and the implementations here: [gitea/modules/packages at main · go-gitea/gitea · GitHub](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/main/modules/packages).

Could this avenue hold some promise?

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**Author:** ![GunnarFarneback](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gunnarfarneback/32/1827_2.png) [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gitea-package-registry/100827/2 "2023-06-26T05:45:09Z")

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As I’m not using Gitea it wouldn’t help me at all but I’m curious what kind of maintenance improvements you’re envisioning.

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**Author:** ![tecosaur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tecosaur/32/23206_2.png) [@tecosaur](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tecosaur)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gitea-package-registry/100827/3 "2023-06-26T06:12:23Z")

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For people with Gitea set up, I’m thinking the ideal would be that pushing a commit to a repo that bumps `version` in the `Project.toml` and uses a hypothetical `julia` package registry would automatically trigger a new release in the registry.

i.e. zero-effort releases.

I’m not sure if this is easily possible or not, but the idea is alluring…

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**Author:** ![GunnarFarneback](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gunnarfarneback/32/1827_2.png) [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gitea-package-registry/100827/4 "2023-06-26T08:25:20Z")

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That’s possible to do with CI scripts today. At work I have set up Julia repositories with a julia registration job which is activated on merge to master after all other jobs have passed, which calls `LocalRegistry` to register a version. If `Project.toml` wasn’t updated, nothing happens, and if it was bumped a new version is registered.

This doesn’t mean integration with a git hosting service’s package repository functionality would be meaningless, but it’s more a question of simplifying/streamlining CI setups than enabling easier workflows.

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**Author:** ![tamasgal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamasgal/32/27946_2.png) [@tamasgal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tamasgal)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gitea-package-registry/100827/5 "2023-06-26T08:36:44Z")

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Are you using GitLab or GitHub? Do you mind sharing those workflows? I still have a few problems to solve. For example, merge requests are created nicely when I register a new package (by hand, via LocalRegistry) but the merge requests on our GitLab instance is apparently waiting for something to finish, so I always have to cancel the auto-merge first and the merge manually.

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**Author:** ![GunnarFarneback](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gunnarfarneback/32/1827_2.png) [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 8:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gitea-package-registry/100827/6 "2023-06-26T08:47:26Z")

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See [Julia and Gitlab self-hosted : a state-of-the-art? - #6 by GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-gitlab-self-hosted-a-state-of-the-art/86685/6) for some details on my GitLab setup.