Create and maintain local registries for Julia packages. This package is intended to provide a simple workflow for maintaining local registries (private or public) without making any assumptions about how the registry or the packages are hosted.

For registration in the General registry, see Registrator.

For serving local packages through a Package Server see the companion package LocalPackageServer.

This package requires Julia 1.6 or later. Older versions of the package work back to Julia 1.1.

You need to have command line git (>=1.8.5) installed and available in the system PATH. If

run(`git --version`)

in the Julia REPL prints a version number rather than giving an error, you are good to go.

using Pkg
Pkg.add("LocalRegistry")

The recommended way to create a registry is

using LocalRegistry
create_registry(name, repository_url; description = "My private registry", push = true)

where name is the name of your registry and repository_url points to an empty upstream repository where you will host your registry.

There are a number of options to customize this. Read more about that and further explanations in the detailed instructions.

To activate the registry, do

using Pkg
pkg"registry add <repository url>"

This only needs to be done once per Julia installation. Troubleshooting advice if you cannot find packages from the General registry.

The recommended way to register a package or a new version of a package is simply:

using LocalRegistry
register()

For this to work you need to either have the package in your current directory or have the package activated.

Actually there are some more requirements but those are usually satisfied. Read more about that, a number of options to customize the call, and some additional features in the detailed instructions.

• Working with a Private Registry and/or Private Repositories
• Registering a Package in a Subdirectory of a Repository
• Migrating Packages from the General Registry
• Using LocalRegistry on a Shared Filesysem
• Delete a Registered Package
• Registry Consistency Testing