[ale] SUCCESSFUL: Add source repo to CentOS, Was: Epic 'wish I had chosen Debian' fail
Jim Kinney
jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 14:55:52 EDT 2009
text stored in a database with out a link to the page containing a
passing semblance to the content of the page will break most search
engine classifications.
So a page of scripts that do string manipulations titled "My dessert
findings for pears and pigeons" has a MUCH higher chance of appearing
in a pigeon search than a string manipulation search.
Of course bing will tell you to buy 3 microsoft 2008 servers...
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> I don't know how something becomes Google-proof. But here is what is
> by-far the most annoying case of it for me:
> http://www.colinburns.com/wordpress/?p=67#comment-556 I have to use
> that all the time to set up different computers and no combination of
> search terms will find it. I had to bookmark it on delicious.com so I
> can find it. Very sad.
>
> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to applaude the term "Google-proof". Not that I have a good use
>> for it. I just like the way it sounds.
>>
>> Google-proof
>>
>> That should be a test for systemic structural data integrity.
>>
>> If Google can't find it or use it, it's very well done.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
>>> My repos list included the following "base" entry:
>>> [base]
>>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
>>> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
>>> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
>>> gpgcheck=1
>>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>>>
>>> I discovered the if you use your browser to visit the baseurl which is
>>> commented out, you can navigate back out of the architecture directory
>>> and find the SRPMS directory. Using this I created the following
>>> "base-source" entry:
>>> [base-source]
>>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base - Source
>>> #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
>>> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/SRPMS/
>>> gpgcheck=1
>>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>>>
>>> Now I can successfully do "yumdownloader --source" commands. From what
>>> I can tell this is either non-documented or completely Google-proof. I
>>> did try every combo of &arch=(source|src|srpm|SRPM) and
>>> repo=os-(source|src|srpm|SRPM) but the CentOS mirror list seems to not
>>> have any source repos in it.
>>>
>>> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 11:56 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>>>> --source is exactly what I was trying, but the default CentOS install
>>>>> does list any source repos. I cannot find any documentation on adding
>>>>> source repos to CentOS.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, sorry. I missed that little point in your original post. Guess I
>>>> should read a little closer, next time. That does raise an interesting
>>>> question then. Since CentOS largely mirrors RHEL, I wonder whats in
>>>> RHEL. I'll have to check that out. Should be possible to create a
>>>> source repo for yum if CentOS has to corresponding repos in their mirror
>>>> list. Checking in the repos, I see that they do.
>>>>
>>>> This should work for a straight baseurl repo. I'm not sure about the
>>>> correct syntax for enabling the mirrors:
>>>>
>>>> CentOS-Base-Source.repo:
>>>>
>>>> [base-source]
>>>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base Source
>>>> # mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
>>>> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/SRPM/
>>>> enable=0
>>>> gpgcheck=1
>>>> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>>>>
>>>> #released updates
>>>> [updates-source]
>>>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
>>>> # mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
>>>> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/SRPMS/
>>>> enabled=0
>>>> gpgcheck=1
>>>> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>>>>
>>>> Just tested that as well. Works like a charm.
>>>>
>>>> Follow the same pattern for all the others. Name the repo
>>>> [repo-source], comment out the mirrors, uncomment the baseurl, and
>>>> change $basearch to SRPMS and add "enabled=0" to the repo.
>>>>
>>>> The source rpm repos are typically not "enabled" per se. Seems like
>>>> yumdownloader uses them anyways if the corresponding non "-source" repo
>>>> is enabled. Not sure how it manages that. You probably do NOT want to
>>>> enable it or yum update might do strange things. They do NOT have to be
>>>> in the same repo file, so you can create a separate -source repo and not
>>>> have to worry about an update clobbering your changes.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/7/09, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
>>>>> > On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 22:52 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>>>> >> I never did learn how to add a source repo to yum, but I did work
>>>>> >> around it. The following works for downloading a source package:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> p=postfix; # Change this to your packagename.
>>>>> >> curl -O $(yumdownloader --urls $p |sed
>>>>> >> '$!d;s?/os/.*/?/os/SRPMS/?;s/[^.]*\.rpm$/src.rpm/')
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > How about "yumdownloader --source foo"
>>>>> >
>>>>> > It's in yum-utils. I use it all the time to snatch rawhide source rpm's
>>>>> > (like the gnupg and gnupg2 packages just recently) to backport into
>>>>> > earlier distros:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > yumdownloader --enablerepo=rawhide --source gnupg gnupg2
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Done. Install the rpms and rebuild them.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Mike
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Richard Bronosky<Richard at bronosky.com>
>>>>> >> wrote:
>>>>> >> > I just spent 3 hours trying to install postfix compiled with mysql
>>>>> >> > support. Most of that time was spent trying to get a source repo added
>>>>> >> > so I could: yumdownloader --source postfix
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > No luck. Wasted night. I could have really used the sleep. </rant>
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > --
>>>>> >> > Sent from my mobile device
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>>>>> >> >
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>>>>
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