Re: Converting regular redhat mirrors to apt repository (virtually)

[mark <mark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gordon Messmer wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:58, Mark wrote:
>  
> > The existing regular redhat mirrors out there are a) many and b) in some 
> > cases are connected to huge pipes ( like  redhat.newaol.com).  The apt 
> > repositories are few and this is especially true for phoebe and rawhide 
> > (so far).  To take advantage of the existing  infrastructure  has anyone 
> > given much thought as to how to locally put some kind of hack on apt-get 
> > to allow it to point at the regular mirrors so that they appear as 
> > virtual apt repositories?
> >    
> You'd have to maintain your own mirror of the files on the remote server
> you wanted to make apt-get'able, but it might work.
>
> If you kept an up to date mirror and generated the apt indexes for it,
> you could then put .htaccess files in the RPMS.<module> and
> SRPMS.<module> directories to redirect clients to the proper locations. 
> I think they'd look like this:
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^(.*) http://redhat.newaol.com/pub/$1
>
> (Not sure what the URL is on redhat.newaol.com...  I can't find the
> mirror there...)
>
> The apt clients would initially connect to you to request the package,
> and your web server would issue a 301 HTTP redirect.
> ...
Good idea, thanks.  However my point was to use an _existing_ mirror and 
it looks like I have the following working thanks to lufs:

1.  Set up a local mount a point in the apt format, ie, 
../redhat/RPMS.<module>.  Maybe link this into your web servers root path.
2.  Point at the mirror:
      mount -t lufs ftp://somemirror.path.RedHat.RPMS 
../redhat/RPMS.<module> -o someoptions
3.  Run genbasedir --bloat --progress <localpath> against the local 
mount point. 
4.  Add #3  as weekly or daily cron job.

Then point ../apt/sources.list at this mount point and you have a 
virtual apt repository based on existing redhat rpm mirror.  Of course 
genbasedir takes a bit longer than running against a real local tree but 
nothing like the time to download the entire mirror.   LUFS 
(lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs) is necessary until we get url support in 
genbasedir.  Also I expect that, without cooperation from the mirror 
admin, its inevitable that when the remote mirror updates this will be 
broken until the cron job runs again.

-Mark

>  



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