Installation guide

Templates Overview

• <name> is the package name

• <epoch> denotes the package epoch

• <version> indicates the package version

• <release> is the package release

• <arch> denotes the microprocessor architecture where the package is to be used

Examples of the installed software packages are the zlib-1.2.3-14.fc138.i386.rpm or

glib-1.2.10-28.fc13.i386.rpm packages that can be found in the packages area on the

Hardware Node after installing and caching the Fedora 13 OS EZ template.

• One or several subdirectories containing the packages comprizing the corresponding OS EZ

template. The directories have the following names:

• baseN for the base OS template

• <setname>N for the non-base OS template with the name of <setname>, if any

• <appname>N for the base application template

• <appname>-<setname>N for the application template with the name of <setname>, if

any

N denotes the index number of the URL specified in the repositories/mirrorlist file

(see information on the repositories/mirrorlist file below).

As has been mentioned above, the configuration directory (that is,

/<template_area>/<template_directory>/config) contains a number of subdirectories

storing 'EZ templates'-related configuration files. The contents of these subdirectories can vary

depending on whether it is a base OS EZ template or a non-base one and on the EZ template type

(OS or application template). The most important configuration files are listed below:

• Data files:

• packages: contains a list of software packages names included in the corresponding EZ

template.

• package_manager: specifies the packaging system used to handle the EZ template.

• repositories: a list of repositories where the packages comprising the EZ template are

stored.

• mirrorlist: one or several URLs to the file containing a list of repositories from where the

packages comprising the EZ template are to be downloaded.

• distribution: the name of the Linux distribution for which the EZ template is created.

This file should be absent for application EZ templates.

• summary: brief information on the EZ template.

• description: detailed information on the EZ template. As distinct from the summary file,

it can contain additional data relevant for the EZ template.

• environment: a list of environment variables set in the form of key=value.