Just wanted to throw these instructions out there for anyone who is
looking to configure a mirror of the dell linux repositories. I just
went through this process yesterday, I didn't really find anything that
covered all of this, or anything much at all except the location for
rsyncing. There may, of course, be errors or omissions in here, but so
far it has worked for me.
What you will need:
Apache configured to allow cgi and includes
/usr/bin/python (scripts depends on this, not sure if there are perl
requirements too, you are probably fine on a linux system, but others
such as openbsd will have to have these installed).
rsync
The rsync repo is located at rsync://linux.dell.com/repo/. You can of
course only mirror parts of that if you like but that there is the whole
enchilada. Make sure you use the -H flag to preserve hard links.
Here is the line that works for me:
rsync -aqH --inplace --delete rsync://linux.dell.com/repo/.
<destination_on_localhost>.
Configure apache for includes and cgi:
Uncomment:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Uncomment:
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
Configure apache's vhost from which you will be serving the repository:
You will need the following configuration options:
Options +Indexes +ExecCGI +Includes
HeaderName HEADER.shtml #For the nice headers
Here is a skeleton config for what worked for me:
<VirtualHost <your_ip>:80>
DocumentRoot <repo_location>
<Directory <repo_location>>
Options +Indexes +ExecCGI +Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
HeaderName HEADER.shtml
ServerName <your_server_name>
</VirtualHost>
From here installation and configuration of the repo from a client
system is the same, the scripts are smart enough to point the installed
repo to the right location (your mirror).
So:
wget -q -O - http://<url_of_your_repository>/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi
| sudo bash
If running the above command doesn't scare you, it probably should.
I hope this helps someone out in the future. It didn't take a great deal
of time to reverse all of this stuff but it would have been nice to have
these instructions.
-Erinn
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