RPM Repositories Cloning tool

1 to 1 rpm repository cloning tool

Getting Started

rrclone http://source/repo/ /absolute/path/to/destination/folder/

Prerequisites

Linux or FreeBSD with recent perl (at least 5.20, on previous versions i didn't test it). Perl modules required: AnyEvent, AnyEvent::HTTP, JSON::PP, XML::Parser, URI::URL

For ubuntu it is enough to perform

sudo apt install libjson-pp-perl libfile-spec-perl libxml-parser-perl \
liburi-perl libanyevent-http-perl

For centos 7+ it is enough to perform

yum install perl-AnyEvent-HTTP perl-JSON-PP perl-XML-Parser perl-URI \
perl-IO-Zlib

Cpanminus way

There is a way to install all modules locally either to application dir or to user profile. All you need in this case is cpanminus. Some perl-App-cpanm or cpm or carton or so. In most bad case you can wget it from cpanminus github directly.

Also you'll need analogue of centos @development metapackage (package group Development Tools) or Ubuntu build-essential metapackage to build perl' binary modules.

To prepare environment you need to run ./bootstrap.sh in rrclone directory. Never run it as root, or packages will be installed directly in system.

In case of package, providing perl' local::lib found in system dependencies will be installed in script directory in vendor_perl catalogue, else it will go to ~./perl5.

To run script properly you should setup environment variables pointing to these vendored modules.

export PERL5LIB="/path/to/rrclone/dir/vendor_perl/lib/perl5"

and in case if perl' local::lib is not found in system:

export PERL5LIB="$HOME/.perl5/lib/perl5"

Using rrclone

There are no additional effort required for one-shot sync.

You need correct path to repository. A string after "baseurl=" in repo-file (one that located in /etc/yum.repos.d, for example), it must end with trailng slash. If it does not, just add it.

To check that url is correct you can try to download part of repository xml metadata. Put your string into browser address bar and add "repodata/repomd.xml" (no quotes) and if you see xml text then - vua-la! - your string is correct.

But if you planning to keep repository in sync with upstream, you should add cron job, that can be run without any additional privileges, i.e. web server user is enough for that.

To add cronjob invoke

su -s /bin/bash apache
crontab -e

30 4 * * 0 /path/to/rrclone http://repository/url/ /absolute/path/to/copy/

This will run job weekly, at Sunday 4:30.

Deployment

Obviously, before deploy this script on some production environment you should package it properly :)

And as a good practice do not run it as root user.

Contributing

If you want contribute ideas or code - please feel free to contact me via email eleksir at exs-elm.ru

Authors

• Eleksir - Initial work - exs' bitbucket

License

This project is licensed under the BSD License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• Hat tip to anyone whose code was used
• Inspiration
• you