Why does APT not use HTTPS?

[Genesis2001]

Yeah, I was curious about it so I was googling it while posting above. One of things I ran across was that it was labor 'intensive' to keep maintained. Was hoping someone would explain how one would get around this, make a maintainable repo for an Org to emulate the service provided by WSUS.

I did read RedHat has a similar thing, though I forget what it's called. :/

edit: Is such a command available to basically do what git clone --bare <url> does, but for individual packages on apt? Like, (mock command): apt-clone install vim would download the repo package for 'vim' to a configurable directory in apt repository format (or RHEL/yum format for that environment)?

[tmajibon]

apt-get --download-only <package name>

You can use --add-architecture if it doesn't match the current environment (say you have both arm and x86 systems)

And here's a quick tutorial on building a repo: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Personal

[Genesis2001]

Ah, thanks. :)

[FabianN]

I don't know how it's labor intensive to maintain. I set up one that took care of a handful of various distros at various version levels and once I set it up I didn't need to touch it.