Re: support for private repo on AWS S3

Peter King <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anybody has the experience to make yum work with apache module auth_mysql?
We are trying to use yum, now I am trying to figure this out. BTW, I am from
Asianux. Plz ignore me if my question is stupid.

We have a plan to use yum in Asianux 4.0.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Seth Vidal <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, James Antill wrote:
>
>  Jeff Enderwick <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>  This is what I meant by AWS auth:
>>>
>>> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/index.html?RESTAuthentication.html
>>>
>>
>> Ok, looking around I see a patch from 2007 for libcurl support:
>>
>> http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-04/0239.html
>>
>> ...and if that got in then newer urlgrabber having an option to use it
>> shouldn't be too hard. But it isn't in the libcurl in Fedora atm.
>> For "direct" support, if someone really wanted, they could probably do
>> what the RHN plugin does ... but that's not going to happen from
>> upstream.
>>
>>  Does S3 support HTTP Basic authentication? I can't seem to find any refs
>>> to
>>> that. Are you assuming a web server between the yum client and S3? I'm
>>> looking to have the EC2 instance directly pull from a repo stored on S3.
>>> Maybe my google skills are broken :-)
>>>
>>
>> I don't really know anything about how special EC2/S3 is. I know
>> people have working setups where they have an SSL box on the server,
>> and use SSL+Auth. Basic on the client. I also know a couple of people
>> using x509 certs on their clients, with checking in their servers (on
>> RHEL-5.x).
>> So I'd look at either of those options, if you want to solve it in a
>> easy/std. way.
>>
>>  I'm currently using the rightscale centos 5.2 ami.
>>>
>>
>> 5.2 yum is pretty old, I think you need the 5.4 yum for
>> x509. Although using libcurl will be a RHEL-6 feature.
>>
>>
> But if you're  adventurous and don't mind updating pkgs from stuff in
> fedora, you could try out urlgrabber 3.9.1. It was intended as api-compat
> with earlier urlgrabber so we wouldn't have to change any of the callers.
>
> -sv
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Regards
Peter

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