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Experiments in Fedora 0x01

Posted: May 27th, 2008, 5:23pm CEST

pRunning your own local yum repo isn't all that hard as it turns out. ol li Allow building as a non-root user. ol liMake some important directories. I only care about powerpc packages, so I make the ppc and ppc64 directories, clearly if you use another architecture you should change that tt;P/tt blockquote pre mkdir -p /home/user/rpmbuild/fedora/{BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS,tmp,RPMS/{noarch,ppc,ppc64}} /pre /blockquote /li li Now create a tt~/.rpmmacros/tt file. To use those directories you just created. blockquote pre %_topdir /home/user/rpmbuild/fedora/ %_builddir %{_topdir}/BUILD %_rpmdir %{_topdir}/RPMS %_specdir %{_topdir}/SPECS %_srcrpmdir %{_topdir}/SRPMS %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}-%{release} %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp %_buildroot %{_topdir}/%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root %packager user@example.com /pre /blockquote With this there you can ttrpm -i src.rpm/tt files, and run ttrpmbuild/tt commands to generate RPMS (binary and source). I intend to have a bunch of packages on the go at any time so I use the tt%_sourcedir/tt macro, have one directory per tt%{name}-%{version}-%{release}/tt. You could just as easily do: blockquote pre %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES /pre /blockquote It's easiest to decide upfront as changing will be a little cumbersome. /li /ol /li li Make some RPMS. True this can be a little challenging at times but fortunately the packages I'm interested presented little challenge ... ttwoot!/tt/li li Fedora has a util for rummaging through RPMs and makeing the repodata files. It's called ttcreaterepo/tt. So install that: ttyum install -y createrepo/tt li I then moved all my locally built RPMS into a separate directory structure. I emtried/em to make this look at least a little like emreal/em Fedora repos. Again I only care about powerpc, hence setting tt$basearch/tt. You don't need to tt:)/tt. In case it isn't obvious I ran this script from the root directory of the repo (in my case tt/opt/yum/tt). blockquote pre #!/bin/sh basearch=ppc releasever=9 rpmbuild_base=/home/user/rpmbuild/fedora for i in local local-debuginfo local-source ; do d=$i/$releasever/$basearch [ ! -d $d ] mkdir -p $d done find $rpmbuild_base/RPMS/ -type f \ -exec /bin/cp {} ./local/$releasever/$basearch/. \; find $rpmbuild_base/SRPMS/ -type f \ -exec /bin/cp {} ./local-source/$releasever/$basearch/. \; find ./local/$releasever/$basearch/. -type f -name '*debug*' \ -exec /bin/mv {} ./local-debuginfo/$releasever/$basearch/. \; for i in local local-debuginfo local-source ; do cd $i/$releasever/$basearch /usr/bin/createrepo . cd - done /pre /blockquote /li li Setup apache to serve up that directory. This machine shouldn't need any other web services, so I just make tt//tt point at my tt/opt/yum/tt directory blockquote pre NameVirtualHost * lt;VirtualHost *gt; ServerAdmin user@example.com DocumentRoot /opt/yum/ ServerAlias host ServerName host.example.com ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/yum.repo-error_log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/yum.repo-access_log combined lt;Directory /opt/yumgt; Options Indexes lt;/Directorygt; lt;/VirtualHostgt; /pre /blockquote /li li Now create a yum config you use this new goodness. blockquote pre [local] name=local $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://host.example.com/local/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [local-debuginfo] name=local $releasever - $basearch - Debug baseurl=http://host.example.com/local-debuginfo/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [local-source] name=local $releasever - $basearch - Source baseurl=http://host.example.com/local-source/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 /pre /blockquote /li li If that all went well then: blockquote pre [user@host ~]$ yum repolist Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit repo id repo name status fedora Fedora 9 - ppc enabled fedora-debuginfo Fedora 9 - ppc - Debug enabled fedora-source Fedora 9 - Source enabled local local 9 - ppc enabled local-debuginfo local 9 - ppc - Debug enabled local-source local 9 - ppc - Source enabled updates Fedora 9 - ppc - Updates enabled updates-debuginfo Fedora 9 - ppc - Updates - Debug enabled updates-source Fedora 9 - Updates Source enabled /pre /blockquote p and ttdebuginfo-install/tt and ttyumdownloader/tt should do the right things ttwoot!/tt /li /ol pThere are probabluy all sorts of other cool things you can do here but this is enought to keep a few local machines in sync tt:)/tt/p pUpdate: Type fixes, and add note about installign createrepo/p
Experiments in Fedora 0x01

Posted: May 27th, 2008, 3:23pm CEST

pRunning your own local yum repo isn't all that hard as it turns out. ol li Allow building as a non-root user. ol liMake some important directories. I only care about powerpc packages, so I make the ppc and ppc64 directories, clearly if you use another architecture you should change that tt;P/tt blockquote pre mkdir -p /home/user/rpmbuild/fedora/{BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS,tmp,RPMS/{noarch,ppc,ppc64}} /pre /blockquote /li li Now create a tt~/.rpmmacros/tt file. To use those directories you just created. blockquote pre %_topdir /home/user/rpmbuild/fedora/ %_builddir %{_topdir}/BUILD %_rpmdir %{_topdir}/RPMS %_specdir %{_topdir}/SPECS %_srcrpmdir %{_topdir}/SRPMS %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}-%{release} %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp %_buildroot %{_topdir}/%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root %packager user@example.com /pre /blockquote With this there you can ttrpm -i src.rpm/tt files, and run ttrpmbuild/tt commands to generate RPMS (binary and source). I intend to have a bunch of packages on the go at any time so I use the tt%_sourcedir/tt macro, have one directory per tt%{name}-%{version}-%{release}/tt. You could just as easily do: blockquote pre %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES /pre /blockquote It's easiest to decide upfront as changing will be a little cumbersome. /li /ol /li li Make some RPMS. True this can be a little challenging at times but fortunately the packages I'm interested presented little challenge ... ttwoot!/tt/li li Fedora has a util for rummaging through RPMs and makeing the repodata files. It's called ttcreaterepo/tt. So install that: ttyum install -y createrepo/tt li I then moved all my locally built RPMS into a separate directory structure. I emtried/em to make this look at least a little like emreal/em Fedora repos. Again I only care about powerpc, hence setting tt$basearch/tt. You don't need to tt:)/tt. In case it isn't obvious I ran this script from the root directory of the repo (in my case tt/opt/yum/tt). blockquote pre #!/bin/sh basearch=ppc releasever=9 rpmbuild_base=/home/user/rpmbuild/fedora for i in local local-debuginfo local-source ; do d=$i/$releasever/$basearch [ ! -d $d ] mkdir -p $d done find $rpmbuild_base/RPMS/ -type f \ -exec /bin/cp {} ./local/$releasever/$basearch/. \; find $rpmbuild_base/SRPMS/ -type f \ -exec /bin/cp {} ./local-source/$releasever/$basearch/. \; find ./local/$releasever/$basearch/. -type f -name '*debug*' \ -exec /bin/mv {} ./local-debuginfo/$releasever/$basearch/. \; for i in local local-debuginfo local-source ; do cd $i/$releasever/$basearch /usr/bin/createrepo . cd - done /pre /blockquote /li li Setup apache to serve up that directory. This machine shouldn't need any other web services, so I just make tt//tt point at my tt/opt/yum/tt directory blockquote pre NameVirtualHost * lt;VirtualHost *gt; ServerAdmin user@example.com DocumentRoot /opt/yum/ ServerAlias host ServerName host.example.com ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/yum.repo-error_log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/yum.repo-access_log combined lt;Directory /opt/yumgt; Options Indexes lt;/Directorygt; lt;/VirtualHostgt; /pre /blockquote /li li Now create a yum config you use this new goodness. blockquote pre [local] name=local $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://host.example.com/local/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [local-debuginfo] name=local $releasever - $basearch - Debug baseurl=http://host.example.com/local-debuginfo/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [local-source] name=local $releasever - $basearch - Source baseurl=http://host.example.com/local-source/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 /pre /blockquote /li li If that all went well then: blockquote pre [user@host ~]$ yum repolist Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit repo id repo name status fedora Fedora 9 - ppc enabled fedora-debuginfo Fedora 9 - ppc - Debug enabled fedora-source Fedora 9 - Source enabled local local 9 - ppc enabled local-debuginfo local 9 - ppc - Debug enabled local-source local 9 - ppc - Source enabled updates Fedora 9 - ppc - Updates enabled updates-debuginfo Fedora 9 - ppc - Updates - Debug enabled updates-source Fedora 9 - Updates Source enabled /pre /blockquote p and ttdebuginfo-install/tt and ttyumdownloader/tt should do the right things ttwoot!/tt /li /ol pThere are probabluy all sorts of other cool things you can do here but this is enought to keep a few local machines in sync tt:)/tt/p pUpdate: Type fixes, and add note about installign createrepo/p
Experiments in Fedora 0x00

Posted: May 20th, 2008, 2:07pm CEST

pSo it's been a long time since I used RPM based distro quot;in angerquot;, so I'm trying Fedora 9. First tips ul littyum check-update/tt Check all enabled repositories for update and display them./li littyumdownloader --source ${package}/tt To grab the source RPM (tt*.src.rpm/tt) for ${package}. You must have the appropriate source repositories configured and enabled. It's a shame that this isn't available (or did I missit) with the ttyum/tt command./li li Rename tt/etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf/tt to something that doesn't end in tt.conf/tt once you've setup your web content. Otherwise you just get the std. quot;Welcome to Fedoraquot; page. /ul pstrongNote/strong: These may not be the embest/em ways to get the job done but they worked for me/p pUpdate: fix typos/p
Experiments in Fedora 0x00

Posted: May 20th, 2008, 12:07pm CEST

pSo it's been a long time since I used RPM based distro quot;in angerquot;, so I'm trying Fedora 9. First tips ul littyum check-update/tt Check all enabled repositories for update and display them./li littyumdownloader --source ${package}/tt To grab the source RPM (tt*.src.rpm/tt) for ${package}. You must have the appropriate source repositories configured and enabled. It's a shame that this isn't available (or did I missit) with the ttyum/tt command./li li Rename tt/etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf/tt to something that doesn't end in tt.conf/tt once you've setup your web content. Otherwise you just get the std. quot;Welcome to Fedoraquot; page. /ul pstrongNote/strong: These may not be the embest/em ways to get the job done but they worked for me/p pUpdate: fix typos/p
Muscle Memory

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 2:28pm CEST

pLike most of you that type passwords often I tend to let my finger's muscle memory do the hard work remembering my passwords. This works rather well except on two occasions/p ol liWhen you come back from an extended vacation, and even your fingers have forgotten/li liWhen you can't use those muscles, because you've a href=http://svana.org/sjh/diary/2008/04/02#2008-04-02_01fractured/a the middle digit on your left hand :(:(/li /ol Ho Hum, took me far too long to get into my laptop this morning. I'm much better off than the other guys.
Muscle Memory

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 11:28am CEST

pLike most of you that type passwords often I tend to let my finger's muscle memory do the hard work remembering my passwords. This works rather well except on two occasions/p ol liWhen you come back from an extended vacation, and even your fingers have forgotten/li liWhen you can't use those muscles, because you've a href=http://svana.org/sjh/diary/2008/04/02#2008-04-02_01fractured/a the middle digit on your left hand :(:(/li /ol Ho Hum, took me far too long to get into my laptop this morning. I'm much better off than the other guys.
Zurich eh?

Posted: February 12th, 2008, 9:59am CET

p So a href=http://neuling.org/mikey/Mikey/a claims he can travel to a href=http://neuling.org/mikey/index.cgi/2008/02/09#Exchange2008Zurich/a and then $180m in artwork goes a href=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/11/2159952.htmmissing/a. Coincidence? ... /p
Zurich eh?

Posted: February 12th, 2008, 7:59am CET

p So a href=http://neuling.org/mikey/Mikey/a claims he can travel to a href=http://neuling.org/mikey/index.cgi/2008/02/09#Exchange2008Zurich/a and then $180m in artwork goes a href=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/11/2159952.htmmissing/a. Coincidence? ... /p
More use?/p

Posted: January 4th, 2007, 8:27pm CET

p Do new years resolutions count if you make the 4 days in?. If they do then; this is a new years resolution; if they don't then I've just decide to ... brbrstrongblog more/strong. /p p Given I only blogged twice in 2006, I've already equalled that so one more entry in the next 361 days and I'm set. nbsp;tt.../ttnbsp; The pressure is on. /p pPS: Thanks a href=http://kyliewillison.blogspot.com/Kylie/a for the a href=http://kyliewillison.blogspot.com/2007/01/memes-which-file-extension-are-you-to.html prod/a /p
Damn rusty and his 5 things!/p

Posted: January 4th, 2007, 8:27pm CET

p I was blinknot/blink a href=http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/self/2007-01-02.html tagged/a by a href=http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/Rusty/a in the five things meme. Below are 5 things about me that I've not blogged about. /p ul liI'm addicted to a href=http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor13/ Survivor/a/li liI think Abstract art is a waste of wall space, time, materials and money./li liI#39;ve eaten horse, and liked it. (sorry Alli)/li liThe first time I used the Internet, I didn't know that was what I was doing. I just thought it was a emreally/em popular BBS. Turns out it was Usenet tt;P/tt. I'm waaay to embarrassed by my first post to link to it but it emis/em in a href=http://groups.google.com/Google Groups/a. I looked./li liI fear heights tt.../tt well falling. To combat this I go rock climbing whenever I can./li /ul p I hereby tag a href=http://svana.org/sjh/diarySteve/a, a href=http://www.somewoman.com/diary.cgiSomewomen/a, a href=http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blogAJ/a, a href=http://james.k-sit.com/James/a and a href=http://leonbrooks.blogspot.com/index.htmlLeon/a p Also Rusty wonders if someone with more time than sensett^W^W^W/ttbandwidth than him would trace it back. I did. This whole things seems to have begun with a href=http://sharon-jacobsen.co.uk/thewaterbutt/2006/5-things-people-collection-tag/this post/a. The path between rusty and the origin (including a few detours tt:(/tt) can be found a href=/~tony/five_things.htmlhere/a. I find it interesting that it stayed in the quot;literary worldquot; for quite some time but the root cause quot;people collectingquot; was lost rather quickly. /p
More use?

Posted: January 4th, 2007, 6:27pm CET

Do new years resolutions count if you make the 4 days in?. If they do then; this is a new years resolution; if they don't then I've just decide to ...

blog more.

Given I only blogged twice in 2006, I've already equalled that so one more entry in the next 361 days and I'm set. ... The pressure is on.

PS: Thanks Kylie for the prod
Damn rusty and his 5 things!

Posted: January 4th, 2007, 6:27pm CET
I was not tagged by Rusty in the five things meme. Below are 5 things about me that I've not blogged about.
- I'm addicted to Survivor
- I think Abstract art is a waste of wall space, time, materials and money.
- I've eaten horse, and liked it. (sorry Alli)
- The first time I used the Internet, I didn't know that was what I was doing. I just thought it was a really popular BBS. Turns out it was Usenet ;P. I'm waaay to embarrassed by my first post to link to it but it is in Google Groups. I looked.
- I fear heights ... well falling. To combat this I go rock climbing whenever I can.
I hereby tag Steve, Somewomen, AJ, James and Leon
Also Rusty wonders if someone with more time than sense^W^W^Wbandwidth than him would trace it back. I did. This whole things seems to have begun with this post. The path between rusty and the origin (including a few detours :() can be found here. I find it interesting that it stayed in the "literary world" for quite some time but the root cause "people collecting" was lost rather quickly.
More use?/p

Posted: January 4th, 2007, 6:27pm CET

p Do new years resolutions count if you make the 4 days in?. If they do then; this is a new years resolution; if they don't then I've just decide to ... brbrstrongblog more/strong. /p p Given I only blogged twice in 2006, I've already equalled that so one more entry in the next 361 days and I'm set. nbsp;tt.../ttnbsp; The pressure is on. /p pPS: Thanks a href=http://kyliewillison.blogspot.com/Kylie/a for the a href=http://kyliewillison.blogspot.com/2007/01/memes-which-file-extension-are-you-to.html prod/a /p
Damn rusty and his 5 things!/p

Posted: January 4th, 2007, 6:27pm CET

p I was blinknot/blink a href=http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/self/2007-01-02.html tagged/a by a href=http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/Rusty/a in the five things meme. Below are 5 things about me that I've not blogged about. /p ul liI'm addicted to a href=http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor13/ Survivor/a/li liI think Abstract art is a waste of wall space, time, materials and money./li liI#39;ve eaten horse, and liked it. (sorry Alli)/li liThe first time I used the Internet, I didn't know that was what I was doing. I just thought it was a emreally/em popular BBS. Turns out it was Usenet tt;P/tt. I'm waaay to embarrassed by my first post to link to it but it emis/em in a href=http://groups.google.com/Google Groups/a. I looked./li liI fear heights tt.../tt well falling. To combat this I go rock climbing whenever I can./li /ul p I hereby tag a href=http://svana.org/sjh/diarySteve/a, a href=http://www.somewoman.com/diary.cgiSomewomen/a, a href=http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blogAJ/a, a href=http://james.k-sit.com/James/a and a href=http://leonbrooks.blogspot.com/index.htmlLeon/a p Also Rusty wonders if someone with more time than sensett^W^W^W/ttbandwidth than him would trace it back. I did. This whole things seems to have begun with a href=http://sharon-jacobsen.co.uk/thewaterbutt/2006/5-things-people-collection-tag/this post/a. The path between rusty and the origin (including a few detours tt:(/tt) can be found a href=/~tony/five_things.htmlhere/a. I find it interesting that it stayed in the quot;literary worldquot; for quite some time but the root cause quot;people collectingquot; was lost rather quickly. /p
Back from the abyss

Posted: November 3rd, 2006, 3:04pm CET

p At last week's a href=http://clug.org.au/CLUG/a meeting a href=http://svana.org/sjh/diary/Steve/a pointed at this blog, and the lack of activity, and berrated me for being so slack. /p pSo I'm inventing stuff to blog about./p p Occaisonally I need to know what time it is in another timezone. This is pretty easy with ttdate/tt, eg blockquote pre $ TZ=Europe/Rome date -R Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:24:39 +0100 /pre /blockquote I discovered the other day that ttdate/tt can do some cool stuff. Say you know the time in Rome, and you'd like to know the time in Tokyo, all without leaving the east cost of Australia. blockquote pre $ TZ=Asia/Tokyo date --date='TZ=Europe/Rome 11:31pm' -R Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:31:00 +0900 /blockquote /pre p Yet to determine if I'll use this in day to day life but I think it's pretty cute tt:)/tt, and not too hard to remember either. /p
Back from the abyss

Posted: November 3rd, 2006, 12:04pm CET

p At last week's a href=http://clug.org.au/CLUG/a meeting a href=http://svana.org/sjh/diary/Steve/a pointed at this blog, and the lack of activity, and berrated me for being so slack. /p pSo I'm inventing stuff to blog about./p p Occaisonally I need to know what time it is in another timezone. This is pretty easy with ttdate/tt, eg blockquote pre $ TZ=Europe/Rome date -R Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:24:39 +0100 /pre /blockquote I discovered the other day that ttdate/tt can do some cool stuff. Say you know the time in Rome, and you'd like to know the time in Tokyo, all without leaving the east cost of Australia. blockquote pre $ TZ=Asia/Tokyo date --date='TZ=Europe/Rome 11:31pm' -R Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:31:00 +0900 /blockquote /pre p Yet to determine if I'll use this in day to day life but I think it's pretty cute tt:)/tt, and not too hard to remember either. /p
Happy Graduation to Me!

Posted: July 2nd, 2006, 2:13pm CEST

/p p Sung to the tune of quot;Happy Birthdayquot;:br Happy graduation to mebr Happy graduation to mebr I got my degree-eebr Happy graduation to mebr /p p As a href=http://svana.org/sjh/diary/2006/06/26#2006-06-26_01Steve/a mentions I went out and got me one of a href=http://www.giant-bicycles.com/au/030.000.000/030.000.000.asp?year=2006model=10015these/a.br a href=/~tony/images/DSC01548.JPGimg border=1 src=/~tony/images/th_DSC01548.JPG/abr Click for a larger image (1.4M) /p
Happy Graduation to Me!

Posted: July 2nd, 2006, 12:13pm CEST

/p p Sung to the tune of quot;Happy Birthdayquot;:br Happy graduation to mebr Happy graduation to mebr I got my degree-eebr Happy graduation to mebr /p p As a href=http://svana.org/sjh/diary/2006/06/26#2006-06-26_01Steve/a mentions I went out and got me one of a href=http://www.giant-bicycles.com/au/030.000.000/030.000.000.asp?year=2006model=10015these/a.br a href=/~tony/images/DSC01548.JPGimg border=1 src=/~tony/images/th_DSC01548.JPG/abr Click for a larger image (1.4M) /p
Who can resit?

Posted: November 18th, 2005, 1:22pm CET

A meme and a Middle Earth meme at that!/pp img src=http://images.quizilla.com/D/dphenreckson/1049378275_Hmiddleearthentish.jpg border=0 alt=EntishbrEntish brbra href=http://quizilla.com/users/dphenreckson/quizzes/To%20which%20race%20of%20Middle%20Earth%20do%20you%20belong%3F/ To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?/aBR font size=-2brought to you by a href=http://quizilla.comQuizilla/a/font
Bon Voyage

Posted: November 18th, 2005, 12:30pm CET

Wishing a href=http://blog.andrew.net.au/Andrew/a and a href=http://www.stillhq.com/Mikal/a a safe trip and lots of great times at the other end.

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