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! 11: Setting up a mirror of Rufus.W3.Org RPM database</H1></CENTER>
! 12: This page explain how to set-up a Web database for RPM packages similar
! 13: to <A HREF="../RPM/">the one running on rufus.w3.org</A> . You should first
! 14: get acquainted on the mirroring principle described shortly on <A HREF="mirroring.html">the
! 15: mirroring proposal</A>. However the setup should be fairy simple:
! 16: <H3>
! 17: Prerequisites</H3>
! 18:
! 19: <OL>
! 20: <LI>
! 21: You must of course have a Web server running, <A HREF="../rpm/apache.html">I
! 22: suggest Apache </A>the obvious choice for a Linux machine, it's probably
! 23: installed by default anyway.</LI>
! 24:
! 25: <LI>
! 26: You should run a mirror of the RDF database available on <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/RDF">ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/RDF
! 27: </A>. To help boostraping the mirroring process it may prove more efficient
! 28: to fetch first a <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/RDF.tar.gz">compressed
! 29: archive of the whole RDF tree </A>and expand it. Note that you don't need
! 30: to mirror the full tree, you can select to prune some of the subtrees (but
! 31: do not break the overall structure !). I suggest using <A HREF="../RPM/mirror.html">mirror-2.8
! 32: perl script</A> to do the mirroring. [<B>NOTE</B>: until the FTP server
! 33: is available on ftp.rpm.org, use the <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/RDF/">RDF
! 34: database on rufus</A> and the <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/RDF.tar.gz">RDF.tar.gz
! 35: </A>here]</LI>
! 36:
! 37: <LI>
! 38: You should get a recent copy of rpm2html, you can <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/pub/rpm2html/">grab
! 39: an rpm</A> for example :-) (the version must be >= 0.90, and it's generally
! 40: a good idea to follow closely the releases), install it.</LI>
! 41:
! 42: <LI>
! 43: Of course, you need disk space, currently the RDF tree requires 60 MBytes
! 44: while the full HTML tree built consumes nearly 300 MBytes (which is still
! 45: small compared to the initial 8 GBytes needed for the RPM initial mirroring
! 46: !).</LI>
! 47:
! 48: <LI>
! 49: Subscribe to the rpm2html mailing-list, send a mail to <A HREF="mailto:majordomo@rufus.w3.org">majordomo@rufus.w3.org</A>
! 50: with the line</LI>
! 51:
! 52: <BR><TT>subscribe rpm2html</TT>
! 53: <BR>in the body of the message. The list <A HREF="messages/">archive are
! 54: on-line.</A></OL>
! 55:
! 56: <H3>
! 57: Setting up the mirror</H3>
! 58: You need to replicate the RDF database available on <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/RDF">ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/RDF
! 59: </A>. Basically you need to install mirror (this is a set of perl script
! 60: dedicated to the job of mirroring FTP sites), and to add to the default
! 61: configuration (usually named mirror.defaults) an entry for the RDF repository.
! 62: Just add the following lines at the end of your mirror.defaults:
! 63: <PRE>package=rdf
! 64: site=ftp.rpm.org
! 65: remote_dir=/linux/RDF
! 66: local_dir=/home/ftp/pub/linux/RDF
! 67: remote_user=anonymous
! 68: remote_password=hunter@esprit.net RDF mirroring</PRE>
! 69: Try it by launching "mirror -d -p rdf" and check for possible problems.
! 70: <BR>[<B>NOTE</B>: until the FTP server is available on ftp.rpm.org, use
! 71: the <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/RDF/">RDF database on rufus</A> and
! 72: the <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/RDF.tar.gz">RDF.tar.gz </A>here]
! 73: <H3>
! 74: Setting up the rpm2html config file</H3>
! 75: I suggest <A HREF="ftp://rufus.w3.org/pub/rpm2html/rpm2html.config.mirrors">grabbing
! 76: my existing config file</A> and modify it, this is a bit painful, but hopefully
! 77: has to be done only once:
! 78: <H4>
! 79: Modify the Global section</H4>
! 80:
! 81: <OL>
! 82: <LI>
! 83: Change the <B>maint</B> and <B>mail</B> values to reflect your name and
! 84: prefered E-mail address for feedback</LI>
! 85:
! 86: <LI>
! 87: Change the <B>dir</B> path to the actual directory where the HTML file
! 88: have to be produced (something like /home/httpd/html/RPM if you use the
! 89: standard apache setup). This has to be in your server exported space and
! 90: <B>the tree may grow to 200 MBytes</B> so check first that you have enought
! 91: space !</LI>
! 92:
! 93: <LI>
! 94: Change <B>url</B> to the prefix to access teh pages on your HTTP server.
! 95: For example if you are serving them from <B>/home/httpd/html/RPM</B>, the
! 96: full URL to access them is <B>http://my.server.org/RPM</B> and the correct
! 97: value would be : <B>url=/RPM</B> .</LI>
! 98:
! 99: <LI>
! 100: Remove any <B>rdf=true</B> or <B>rdf_dir=/linux/RDF</B> if present, those
! 101: are used on rufus to create the .rdf files from the .rpm ones. You don't
! 102: need them on a mirror.</LI>
! 103: </OL>
! 104:
! 105: <H4>
! 106: Modify each Directory section</H4>
! 107: After the global section, the config file is a list of directory specific
! 108: informations, usually related to one specific distribution. The goal here
! 109: is to adapt it to your local filesystem and point to the local FTP mirrors
! 110: (for example, you wouldn't point directly to RedHat site but to one of
! 111: the mirrors in your area). You may drop some for the directories of you
! 112: are too tight on space or if there is no near mirror for this specific
! 113: distribution. Let's examine one entry:
! 114: <OL>
! 115: <LI>
! 116: <TT>[/linux/RDF/redhat/5.0/i386]</TT> : <B>change /linux</B><TT>
! 117: </TT>to the actual location on your disk for the mirror, e.g.:</LI>
! 118:
! 119: <BR><TT>[/home/ftp/pub/mirror/redhat/5.0/i386]</TT>
! 120: <LI>
! 121: <TT>name=RedHat-5.0 for i386</TT> : You probably don't have to change the
! 122: name of the distribution, unless you want to translate it.</LI>
! 123:
! 124: <LI>
! 125: <TT>subdir=redhat/5.0/i386</TT> : local path, don't change it !</LI>
! 126:
! 127: <LI>
! 128: <TT>ftp=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/alpha/RedHat/RPMS</TT>
! 129: : The origin server for the packages, don't change it !</LI>
! 130:
! 131: <LI>
! 132: <TT>ftpsrc=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/SRPMS</TT> : The
! 133: origin server for the sources, you may want to point to a near server providing
! 134: the sources RPMs.</LI>
! 135:
! 136: <LI>
! 137: <TT>color=#ffe0ff </TT>: Color code for this distribution, you can change
! 138: that but avoid giving nearly the same color for two different distribution.</LI>
! 139:
! 140: <LI>
! 141: <TT>mirror=ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/redhat/redhat-5.0/alpha/RedHat/RPMS</TT>
! 142: : The <B>first nearest mirror</B>, customize to reduce the bandwidth traffic
! 143: (don't reference rufus server if you are located in Australia !).</LI>
! 144:
! 145: <LI>
! 146: <TT>mirror=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/alpha/RedHat/RPMS</TT>
! 147: : <B>additionnal mirrors</B> may be added, rpm2html currently don't use
! 148: this feature, but will in a near future ...</LI>
! 149: </OL>
! 150: <B>Note</B> that if you changed the configuration file for an existing
! 151: setup, you need to pass the -force option to rpm2html to ensure that all
! 152: the pages are updated.
! 153: <H3>
! 154: Run rpm2html</H3>
! 155: Try it:
! 156:
! 157: <P><TT>rpm2html config.rpm2html.mirrors</TT>
! 158:
! 159: <P>Check for error messages, indicating path or directory rights problems,
! 160: then point your favorite browser to the Web pages and ensure that the links
! 161: generated internally are correct, as well as the outside links to the actual
! 162: RPM mirrors.
! 163: <BR>
! 164: <H3>
! 165: Automate the process</H3>
! 166: Add the mirror command to update the RDF directory and the call to rpm2html
! 167: to your crontab. <B>Note </B>that rpm2html never clean up old pages generated
! 168: but no more accurate, you need to add this to your cron job <B>before</B>
! 169: running rpm2html:
! 170: <UL>
! 171: <LI>
! 172: 0 4 * * * /usr/local/lib/mirror/mirror</LI>
! 173:
! 174: <LI>
! 175: 30 6 * * * find /serveur/WWW/public/linux/RPM -not -type d -mtime +15 -exec
! 176: rm {} \; ; /usr/bin/rpm2html -q /usr/share/rpm2html.config.mirrors</LI>
! 177: </UL>
! 178:
! 179: <H3>
! 180: Announce it and register</H3>
! 181: Once you have a working setup, it would be cool to announce it to the <A HREF="mailto:rpm2html@rufus.w3.org">rpm2html
! 182: mailing-list</A>, and to your local linux users group, this has to be shared
! 183: !
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! 186: <A HREF="mailto:Daniel.Veillard@w3.org">Daniel Veillard</A></ADDRESS>
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