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ServiceCatalogueForm
Name Package Repository Service
Description Package Repository Service
Unit Managed Platform
End Users Computing Staff, University Staff, External Users
Software lcfg-refreshpkgs component
Hardware bruegel (package master), hare and wildcat (cache servers), porto (export http and rsync server)
Risk More than Two People
Review Status No University Equivalent
Review Details This is the upstream service for LCFG.
Dependencies AFS service for storing packages.
Nagios service for monitoring.
Redundancy Multiple cache slaves. Can only have one package master running at one time, but planning to configure one of the AFS servers to be a backup package master.
Connection Authentication Kerberos, Other
Connection Authentication Details (if Other) Kerberos for package submission. Kerberos for package retrieval using file access (AFS). None for package retrieval using http or rsync.
Connection Authorization LDAP, Roles/Capabilities, Other
Connection Authorization Details (if Other) AFS ACLs for package submission, and retrieval by file access. Apache configured IP address based for package retrieval using http or rsync.
Connection Configuration Management LCFG
Connection Configuration Management Details (if Other)

Connection Visibility World
Connection Visibility Details (if Other)

Connection Supported Clients pkgsubmit (over AFS) for package submission, http/rsync/afs-file-access for package retrieval
Connection Client Configuration via LCFG for pkgsubmit
Backend Authentication Other
Backend Authentication Details (if Other) Package master uses a keytab for access to AFS volumes. Package slaves have an AFS admin UID which is used via waklog to gain access to AFS repository
Backend Authorization Other
Backend Authorization Details (if Other) AFS ip-address access control is used to give read access to the RPM repository from Package slaves.
Backend Configuration Management Not Applicable
Backend Configuration Management Details (if Other)

User Feature Authentication Not Applicable
User Feature Authentication Details (if Other)

User Feature Authorization Not Applicable
User Feature Authorization Details (if Other)

User Feature Configuration Management Not Applicable
User Feature Configuration Management Details (if Other)

Link to End User Documentation n/a
Link to Technical Documentation https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/DICE/MPUPackageRepository
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