How to create a PPA that just contains links to other PPAs?

So that I just have to maintain one PPA on maybe Launchpad and have all the packages I like.

Update: Nifty workarounds are welcome, too ;)

Update: I'm running a server here at home. So if there is a solution where I can set up my own private repo, that would be totally fine.


You can add PPA's in a script and excecute the script when you need to re-install these PPA's (for instance because of re-installing your system).

Example...

Execute from command line:

touch install_ppa
chmod 775 install_ppa
gedit install_ppa

and copy/paste your PPAs into the file. Rearrange your code to be efficient. Example:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-equinox faenza-icon-theme equinox-theme
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
nautilus -q

Put the file on a partition you do not format during installing or on a stick and you can execute the file thus adding these PPA's. You can also add downloads with wget in it to install tar files etc etc.

Commands have not been tested


You could set up an apt proxy daemon on the server, something like apt-cacher-ng or apt-mirror for example (sorry, no more info, haven't tested it, but google seems to have a wealth of information about these packages).