adding new component to published repo

[Timo Sairiala]

I have a local repo which I have published already. But I have to add deb packages with another component name to this same published repo. Is there any way to publish it again with new component name included without dropping the already published repo?

Detailed Description

What I do is I have one published repo:

aptly repo create -distribution=my_test -component=main test-adding-component
aptly repo add test-adding-component humble/main/amd64
aptly publish repo -architectures="amd64" test-adding-component

=> so far so good
now I have to add more packages with another component name

aptly repo create -distribution=my_test -component=added-component test-adding-component-custom
aptly repo add test-adding-component-custom humble/test_add/amd64/
aptly publish repo -architectures="amd64" -component=, test-adding-component test-adding-component-custom

This last publishing gives an error because this is already published:
ERROR: prefix/distribution already used by another published repo: ./my_test [amd64] publishes {main: [test-adding-component]}

Context

I am running aptly on nas with big amount of deb packages and what ever I do it takes ages. If I run aptly publish drop it also means that repo is not accessible for a while. It is possible I am just doing something wrong or misunderstood instructions, maybe I should be running it another way?

Possible Implementation

maybe some sort of republish or force parameter would do the trick or possibly there already exists something?