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| author | Alexander Sulfrian <alexander@sulfrian.net> | 2014-05-05 19:28:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Alexander Sulfrian <alexander@sulfrian.net> | 2014-05-15 18:18:46 +0200 |
| commit | 4149236d1d065c51c76ac832c3c0d494e21e0402 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d8751ec2560f548e50249ce1763d0da70493f1f | |
| parent | 1b9b1ef341e2291231a96fe2458d385a615acaef (diff) | |
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Packages: add some docs about the supported clients
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt | 78 |
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diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt b/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt index 31f3ccf22..77d9fdeb1 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt @@ -409,9 +409,85 @@ This is done automatically any time `sources.xml`_ is updated. Availability ============ -Support for clients using yum and apt is currently available. Support for +Support for the following clients is currently available. Support for other package managers (Portage, Zypper, IPS, etc) remain to be added. +apt +--- + +All dpkg based clients (for example Debian, Ubuntu or Nexenta) could be +handled with the apt module: + +.. code-block:: xml + + <Source type="apt" + url="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" + version="intrepid"> + <Component>main</Component> + <Component>universe</Component> + <Arch>i386</Arch> + <Arch>amd64</Arch> + </Source> + + +pac +--- + +For Arch Linux or Parabola GNU/Linux-libre you could use the pac module +for packages. You do not need to supply a version attribute as the mirrors +are rolling release and does not supply different versions. + +.. code-block:: xml + + <Source type="pac" + url="http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/"> + <Component>core</Component> + <Component>extra</Component> + <Component>community</Component> + <Arch>i686</Arch> + <Arch>x86_64</Arch> + </Source> + + +pkgng +----- + +The support for the Next Generation package management tool for FreeBSD +is called pkgng. It downloads the packagesite file from the mirror +and parses the dependencies out of it. It currently does not use the +DNS SRV record lookup mechanism to get the correct mirror and does +not verify the signature inside the packagesite file. + +.. code-block:: xml + + <Source type="pkgng" + url="http://pkg.freebsd.org/" + version="10"> + <Component>latest</Component> + <Arch>x86:64</Arch> + <Arch>x86:32</Arch> + </Source> + + +yum +--- + +Rpm based clients (for example RedHat, CentOS or Fedora) could be handled +with the yum module: + +.. code-block:: xml + + <Source type="yum" + url="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/" + version="5.2"> + <Component>os</Component> + <Component>updates</Component> + <Component>extras</Component> + <Arch>i386</Arch> + <Arch>x86_64</Arch> + </Source> + + Package Checking and Verification ================================= |