[Yum] support for private repo on AWS S3

[James Antill]

Jeff Enderwick <jeff.enderwick at gmail.com> 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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