conary repo setup

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conary repo setup

References

• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary:Repository
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/FAQ:Mirror_Standalone_Conary_Repositories
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/FAQ:How_to_Mirror_an_rBuilder_Online_Repository

Prepare

• install libelf-lgpl (http://www.mr511.de/software/libelf-0.8.13.tar.gz)
• install conary (ftp://download.rpath.com/pub/rpath/conary/conary-2.3.6.tar.bz2)
• install httpd, mod_python

Hook to apache

• write /etc/httpd/conf.d/python-conary.conf (named python-conary.conf so that it's started after mod_python's python.conf) (suppose we want to put the mirror under /srv/conary)

    # cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/python-conary.conf
    Alias /conary/ "/srv/conary/config/repository.cnr/"
  
    <Directory /srv/conary/config/>
        AddHandler python-program .cnr
        PythonHandler conary.server.apachehooks
    </Directory>
  
    # You may also find it useful to redirect /conary to /conary/, but if you
    # do, make sure you have trailing slashes in your repository Map entries.
    RedirectMatch /conary$ /conary/
  

Setup repository

• mkdir -p /srv/conary/{config,contents,db,tmp}

• write /srv/conary/config/repository.cnr

    # cat /srv/conary/config/repository.cnr
    repositoryDB sqlite /srv/conary/db/sqldb
    contentsDir /srv/conary/contents
    tmpDir /srv/conary/tmp
  
    readOnlyRepository true
  
    # this is the hostname part of the label, not the hostname of the machine
    # so on both conary.rpath.com and on conary-mirror.rpath.com, this
    # is "serverName conary.rpath.com".  This can also be a list if your repository
    # serves more than one label.
    serverName jesse.rpath.org
  

• create users

    /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/conary/server/server.py --add-user admin --admin --config-file  /srv/conary/config/repository.cnr
    /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/conary/server/server.py --add-user anonymous --config-file  /srv/conary/config/repository.cnr
  

• ensure the db and the dirs are writable by apache

    chown :apache /srv/conary/db/sqldb /srv/conary/tmp/ /srv/conary/contents/ /srv/conary
    chmod g+w /srv/conary/db/sqldb /srv/conary/tmp/ /srv/conary/contents/ /srv/conary/
  

• install conary-web-common (ftp://download.rpath.com/pub/rpath/conary/conary-web-common-1.0.tar.bz2)

• touch /usr/share/conary/web-common/css/custom.css # to get rid of a 404 warning

Do mirror

After the repository is set up, you could mirror another repository into this one.

Suppose the hostname of the your server is repo.test.org, and you want to mirror jesse.rpath.org. Your repository should have been configured to serve jesse.rpath.org (serverName in the above repository.cnr).

• write a mirror.conf

    # cat do-mirror/mirror.conf 
    host jesse.rpath.org
  
    [source]
    user jesse.rpath.org jesse XXXXX
  
    [target]
    user jesse.rpath.org admin XXXXX
    repositoryMap jesse.rpath.org http://repo.test.org/conary/
  

• populate it

    /usr/share/conary/mirror -v --config-file mirror.conf
  

Possible problems

• Make sure the database file and the directory are writable (and the directory is executable/searchable) by apache. Or else there might be:

    DatabaseError: unable to open database file