Installation guide

Managing EZ Templates

3 Create the /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/mirrors/updates-released-

as4 mirror list file and make it point to the repository inside Container 111 where the updated

versions of the RHEL 4 packages are stored:

# echo "http://144.134.134.144/download/redhat/updates/as4/i386/" > \

/vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/mirrors/updates-released-as4

This command makes the

/vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/mirrors/updates-released-as4 file on

the Node and adds the

http://144.134.134.144/download/redhat/updates/as4/i386 string to the file.

4 On the Node, create an empty RPM database. For example:

# mkdir -p /var/repo/redhat-as4

# rpm --initdb --dbpath /var/repo/redhat-as4

# rpm --dbpath /var/repo/redhat-as4 --import /usr/share/ \

rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY

5 Install the RPMs from the official RHEL 4 disks in the created database:

# find /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/redhat/as4/i386/os/ \

RedHat/RPMS -name '*.rpm' | xargs rpm -ihv --justdb\

--dbpath /var/repo/redhat-as4 --ignoresize --force --nodeps

Installing all RPM packages for the RHEL 4 distribution may take a rather long run; please wait

until the installation process completes. After that, you can start using the up2date utility to

update the created repository.

For example, the following session updates the RPM packages in your local repository inside

Container 111:

• Obtain a list of RPM packages

# up2date -l --tmpdir=/tmp/up2date --dbpath /var/repo/redhat-as4/ | \

awk 'BEGIN { stage = 0; } \

stage == 0 && /^--*$/ {stage = 1; next; } \

stage == 1 && /^$/ { stage = 2; next } \

stage == 1 { print $1; }' \

> /tmp/pkgs-list

• Download them:

# cat /tmp/pkgs-list | xargs up2date -d --tmpdir=/tmp/up2date \

--dbpath /var/repo/redhat-as4/

# rpm -ivh --justdb --dbpath /var/repo/redhat-as4/ --ignoresize \

--force --nodeps /tmp/up2date/*.rpm

# mv /tmp/up2date/*.rpm /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/redhat/ \

updates/as4/i386/

# createrepo /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/redhat/updates \

/as4/i386

You can also make a script to automatically perform the aforementioned operations and set this

script to be run as a cron job.

Creating Proxy Servers for EZ Templates

This section describes the process of creating caching proxy servers to efficiently manage OS and

application EZ templates in your network.