Installation guide

Managing EZ Templates

8 Create the mirror list files and set the path to your local repository. For example, you can do this

as follows:

• For the Fedora 16 base RPM packages:

# echo 'http://123.145.145.123/download/fedora/16/i386/os/' >> download/mirrors/fedora-

core-16

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

# echo 'http://123.145.145.123/download/fedora/updates/16/i386' >>

download/mirrors/updates-released-fc16

The aforementioned commands create the fedora-core-16 and updates-released-

fc16 files in the /vz/root/101/var/www/html/download/mirrors directory on the

Node and add the

http://123.145.145.123/download/fedora/16/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS and

http://123.145.145.123/download/fedora/updates/16/i386 strings to them,

respectively.

9 Open the /vz/template/conf/vztt/url.map file on the Node for editing (e.g., by using

vi), and change the value of the $FC_SERVER variable as follows:

$FC_SERVER http://123.145.145.123

10 Grant the apache user and the apache group access to the created repositories inside

Container 101 by executing the following command on the Node:

# vzctl exec 101 chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/download

Example 2: Accessing the Repository via the file protocol

Once you set up a local repository by following the instructions in the example above, you can start

using the vzpkg tool to obtain RPM packages for the Fedora 16 EZ template from this repository.

You can connect to these repositories via the http protocol from both remote and local Nodes.

You can further speed up the process of distributing RPM packages across your repository for

those Containers that reside on your local Node (that is, on the Node where the repositories are

stored). To do this, configure your system to use the file protocol instead of http to connect to

your repositories:

1 Open the /vz/template/fedora/16/x86/config/os/default/mirrorlist file on

the Node and comment the strings containing $FC_SERVER:

#$FC_SERVER/download/mirrors/fedora-core-16

#$FC_SERVER/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc16

2 Execute the following commands to create the repository files:

• To create the

/vz/template/fedora/16/x86/config/os/default/repositories file on the

Node and to make it point to the Fedora 16 base RPM packages from your local repository:

# echo 'file:///vz/root/101/var/www/html/download/fedora/16/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS' >>

/vz/template/fedora/16/x86/config/os/default/repositories