A simple and fast API for serving the metadata from the RPM repositories
- Install Python 3, Virtualenv and Poetry on your Fedora Linux installation.
$ sudo dnf install python3 python3-virtualenv poetry
- Clone the repository to your local storage and make it your present working directory.
$ git clone [email protected]:fedora-infra/mdapi.git $ cd mdapi
- Set up and activate a virtual environment within the directory of the cloned repository.
$ virtualenv venv $ source venv/bin/activate
- Check the validity of the project configuration and install the project dependencies from the lockfile.
$ (venv) poetry check $ (venv) poetry install
- Install Podman on your Fedora Linux installation.
$ sudo dnf install podman
- Ensure that
- The project directory is the present working directory.
- The virtual environment with the project is activated, following the instructions provided in the development installation section.
- The project configuration is modified according to needs in
myconfig.py
file, following the instructions provided in the configuration setup section.
- Execute the following command to build the container image.
$ (venv) podman build -t "mdapi:$(poetry version -s)" .
- Ensure that
- The project directory is the present working directory.
- The virtual environment with the project is activated, following the instructions provided in the development installation section.
- Execute the following command to view the help message.
Output
$ (venv) mdapi --help
Usage: mdapi [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]... A simple API for serving the metadata from the RPM repositories Options: -c, --conffile PATH Read configuration from the specified Python file --version Show the version and exit. --help Show this message and exit. Commands: database Fetch SQLite databases from all active Fedora Linux and EPEL... serveapp Start the API server for querying repository metadata
- Execute the following command to view the project version.
Output
$ (venv) mdapi --version
mdapi, version 3.0.0
- Ensure that
- The project directory is the present working directory.
- The virtual environment with the project is activated, following the instructions provided in the development installation section.
- The storage partition on which test database directory is located has at least 1.5 GiB of free space.
- Execute the following command to run the code quality checks and testcases.
$ (venv) tox
- Ensure that
- The project directory is the present working directory.
- Make a copy of the default configuration on your local storage.
$ cp mdapi/confdata/standard.py mdapi/confdata/myconfig.py
- Make changes to the copied configuration file to suit the requirements.
$ nano confdata/myconfig.py
- Ensure that
- The project directory is the present working directory.
- The virtual environment with the project is activated, following the instructions provided in the development installation section.
- The storage partition on which database directory is located has at least 6 GiB of free space.
- Execute the following command to start fetching the database, while referencing to the modified configuration file.
$ (venv) mdapi --conffile myconfig.py database
- Note that the first run of the database fetching command will take a long time, depending on the internet connection.
- Ensure that
- The project directory is the present working directory.
- The virtual environment with the project is activated, following the instructions provided in the development installation section.
- Execute the following command to start serving the application, while referencing to the modified configuration file.
$ (venv) mdapi --conffile myconfig.py serveapp
- When done with serving the application, press
Ctrl
+C
to raise aKeyboardInterrupt
and exit out of the program.
- Ensure that
- The project directory is the present working directory.
- The virtual environment with the project is activated, following the instructions provided in the development installation section.
- The container image is built and available locally.
- The databases are downloaded to the database directory, following the instructions provided in the database fetching section.
- Execute the following command to start the serving the application.
This command assumes that the database directory is
$ (venv) podman run -v /var/tmp:/var/tmp -p 8080:8080 -ti mdapi:$(poetry version -s)
/var/tmp
(which is the default) and the service port is8080
(which is the default).