[suse-sles-e] sles10 update server via NFS: Why R/W access ???

From: Norbert Paschedag (noe_at_physik.unizh.ch)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2007 - 14:43:59 CET


Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:43:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Norbert Paschedag <noe@physik.unizh.ch>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701101423090.8880@hesse.math.TU-Berlin.DE>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] sles10 update server via NFS: Why R/W access ???

Hi,

I'm currently experimenting with the setup of a local update server for
sles10 and sdk10. The simplest way (I thought) was to simply export the
a disk containing the patches (obtained via yup) via NFS to the clients,
read-only, of course.
Done that, and on the client I tried to do this:

    mount server:/sle10_update/x86_64 /update
    rug service-add /update/SLES10/x86_64 --type yum local-sles10-64
    rug subscribe local-sles10-64
    rug refresh
    rug update

This went well until 'rug refresh', at which point rug complained :
   ERROR: Failed to parse XML metadata: Access to the path
     "/update/SDK10/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml" is denied

It turned out that the client (i.e. ALL clients using this update server)
need FULL READ/WRITE access to the repository. It does not seem to change
anything there, however.

Can anyone please explain the philosophy behind this (if there is any) ?
How can one set up an RO update server via NFS ?

Regards,
  Norbert

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