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| <TITLE>Setting up a mirror of Rufus.W3.Org RPM database</TITLE>
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Line 18 Prerequisites</H3>
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Line 18 Prerequisites</H3>
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| You must of course have a Web server running, <A HREF="http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm/apache.html">I
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You must of course have a Web server running, <A HREF="../rpm/apache.html">I
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| suggest Apache </A>the obvious choice for a Linux machine, it's probably
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suggest Apache </A>the obvious choice for a Linux machine, it's probably
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installed by default anyway.</LI>
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Line 28 You should run a mirror of the RDF datab
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Line 28 You should run a mirror of the RDF datab
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| to fetch first a <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/RDF.tar.gz">compressed
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to fetch first a <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/RDF.tar.gz">compressed
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| archive of the whole RDF tree </A>and expand it. Note that you don't need
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archive of the whole RDF tree </A>and expand it. Note that you don't need
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| to mirror the full tree, you can select to prune some of the subtrees (but
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to mirror the full tree, you can select to prune some of the subtrees (but
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| do not break the overall structure !). I suggest using <A HREF="http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/mirror.html">mirror-2.8
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do not break the overall structure !). I suggest using <A HREF="../RPM/mirror.html">mirror-2.8
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| perl script</A> to do the mirroring.</LI>
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perl script</A> to do the mirroring. [<B>NOTE</B>: until the FTP server
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is available on ftp.rpm.org, use the <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/RDF/">RDF
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database on rufus</A> and the <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/RDF.tar.gz">RDF.tar.gz
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</A>here]</LI>
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| You should get a recent copy of rpm2html, you can <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/pub/rpm2html/">grab
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You should get a recent copy of rpm2html, you can <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/pub/rpm2html/">grab
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Line 40 an rpm</A> for example :-) (the version
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| a good idea to follow closely the releases), install it.</LI>
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a good idea to follow closely the releases), install it.</LI>
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Of course, you need disk space, currently the RDF tree requires 60 MBytes
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while the full HTML tree built consumes nearly 300 MBytes (which is still
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small compared to the initial 8 GBytes needed for the RPM initial mirroring
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| Subscribe to the rpm2html mailing-list, send a mail to <A HREF="mailto:majordomo@rufus.w3.org">majordomo@rufus.w3.org</A>
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Subscribe to the rpm2html mailing-list, send a mail to <A HREF="mailto:majordomo@rufus.w3.org">majordomo@rufus.w3.org</A>
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| with the line<BR>
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with the line</LI>
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| <TT>subscribe rpm2html<BR>
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| </TT>in the body of the message. The list <A HREF="http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm2html/messages/">archive
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<BR><TT>subscribe rpm2html</TT>
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<BR>in the body of the message. The list <A HREF="messages/">archive are
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| Setting up the rpm2html config file</H3>
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Setting up the rpm2html config file</H3>
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| Change <B>url</B> to the prefix to access teh pages on your HTTP server.
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Change <B>url</B> to the prefix to access teh pages on your HTTP server.
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| For example if you are serving them from <B>/home/httpd/html/RPM</B>, the
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For example if you are serving them from <B>/home/httpd/html/RPM</B>, the
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| full URL to access them is <B>http://my.server.org/RPM</B> and the correct
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full URL to access them is <B>http://my.server.org/RPM</B> and the correct
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| value would be : <B>url=/RPM</B> .</LI>
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value would be : <B>url=/RPM</B> .</LI>
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| Remove any <B>rdf=true</B> or <B>rdf_dir=/linux/RDF</B> if present, those
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Remove any <B>rdf=true</B> or <B>rdf_dir=/linux/RDF</B> if present, those
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Line 100 distribution. Let's examine one entry:
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| <TT>[/linux/RDF/redhat/5.0/i386]</TT> : <B>change /linux</B><TT>
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<TT>[/linux/RDF/redhat/5.0/i386]</TT> : <B>change /linux</B><TT>
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| </TT>to the actual location on your disk for the mirror, e.g.:<BR>
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</TT>to the actual location on your disk for the mirror, e.g.:</LI>
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| <TT>name=RedHat-5.0 for i386</TT> : You probably don't have to change
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<TT>name=RedHat-5.0 for i386</TT> : You probably don't have to change the
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name of the distribution, unless you want to translate it.</LI>
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| <TT>subdir=redhat/5.0/i386</TT> : local path, don't change it !</LI>
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| <TT>ftp=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/alpha/RedHat/RPMS</TT>
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<TT>ftp=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/alpha/RedHat/RPMS</TT>
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: The origin server for the packages, don't change it !</LI>
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| <TT>ftpsrc=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/SRPMS</TT> : The
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<TT>ftpsrc=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/SRPMS</TT> : The
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| origin server for the sources, you may want to point to a near server providing
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origin server for the sources, you may want to point to a near server providing
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the sources RPMs.</LI>
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| <TT>color=#ffe0ff </TT>: Color code for this distribution, you can
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<TT>color=#ffe0ff </TT>: Color code for this distribution, you can change
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that but avoid giving nearly the same color for two different distribution.</LI>
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| Automate the process</H3>
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Automate the process</H3>
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Add the mirror command to update the RDF directory and the call to rpm2html
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| to your crontab. <B>Note </B>that rpm2html never clean up old pages generated
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to your crontab. <B>Note </B>that rpm2html never clean up old pages generated
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| but no more accurate, you need to add this to your cron job <B>before</B>
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but no more accurate, you need to add this to your cron job <B>before</B>
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| running rpm2html:
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running rpm2html:
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