From 728ee46209b9add314fe1fec9bdf4a43b7d7eeb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karen Arutyunov Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 19:12:59 +0300 Subject: Add instructions for setting up package versions metadata loading to INSTALL file --- INSTALL | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 79d698f..3476de0 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -407,6 +407,23 @@ PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin Note that here we assume that bpkg (which is executed by brep-load) is in one of the PATH's directories (usually /usr/local/bin). +To additionally load the package metadata (reviews, etc) to the database, the +brep-load-with-metadata wrapper script can be used instead of brep-load +directly. In this case, the package git repository that contains the owners/ +metadata directory should be pre-cloned (read-only and shallowly) as follows: + +$ git init public-metdata +$ cd public-metdata +$ git remote add origin +$ git config core.sparsecheckout true +$ echo "owners/" > .git/info/sparse-checkout +$ git pull --depth=1 origin master + +And the above crontab brep-load entry needs to be replaced with the following +version: + +$HOME/install/bin/brep-load-with-metadata --timeout 60 /home/brep/public-metdata $HOME/config/loadtab + 8.b Setup Periodic Loader, Cleaner, and Monitor Execution with systemd -- cgit v1.1