Re: support for private repo on AWS S3

[Jeff Enderwick <jeff.enderwick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks! It is seeming like nobody has added the AWS Auth support to yum (yet). The appealing aspect of just using S3 (rather than having to have a server instance doing SSL+HTTP Basic/Digest) is that S3 is a REST-based storage cloud. You could just plop the rpms and metadata in the S3 bucket and be done; S3 would just serve it for you - almost zero config required!

Yum seems to be an ideal tool for the EC2 environment. Perhaps I will add the AWS support if I find the free time - thanks :-).

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:34 PM, James Antill <james-yum@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Jeff Enderwick <jeff.enderwick@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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