Installation guide

Managing EZ Templates

• Container 101 is started. It has the IP address of 123.145.145.123 and can be accessed

from other networks.

• The apache web server is running inside Container 101 and the default document root for

apache is /var/www/html, i.e. the apache web server stores its sites in the

/vz/root/101/var/www/html directory on the Node.

• The apache user and group inside Container 101 are apache.

To create a local repository for Fedora 16, do the following:

1 Install the fedora-core-16-x86 OS EZ template (if it is not already installed):

# vzpkg install template fedora-core-16-x86-tmpl-4.7.0-3.noarch.rpm

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1:fedora-core-16-x86-tmpl ################################ [100%]

2 Change to the /vz/root/101/var/www/html directory, and create two subdirectories

within it:

Note: You can also log in to Container 101 and perform the operations described in Steps 2-8 from

inside the Container. In this case your working directory inside Container 101 must be

/var/www/html, and you will need to install the createrepo package inside the Container and grant

the Container access to the CD-ROM drive on the Node.

• The subdirectory where the base RPM packages for Fedora 16 will be stored:

# mkdir -p download/fedora-core/16/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS

• The subdirectory where the updated versions of RPM packages for Fedora 16 will be

stored:

# mkdir -p download/fedora-core/updates/16/i386

3 Copy all the packages comprising the Fedora 16 distribution (e.g., from your Fedora distribution

disks) to the download/fedora/16/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS directory on the Node.

4 Get the updates for Fedora 16, and put them to the download/fedora-

core/updates/16/i386 directory on the Node.

5 Install the createrepo package on the Node, for example:

# rpm -Uhv createrepo-0.4.3-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

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6 Change to the /vz/root/101/var/www/html directory and create the following metadata

repositories:

• For the Fedora 16 base RPM packages:

# createrepo download/fedora/16/i386/os

• For the updated versions of the Fedora 16 RPM packages:

# createrepo download/fedora-core/updates/16/i386

Creating the package metadata repository may take some time depending on the speed of your

processor and hard disk drive.

7 Create a directory for storing mirror site lists. In our case, the lists will be kept in the

/vz/root/101/var/www/html/download/mirrors directory:

# mkdir -p download/mirrors