How to HTTP Serve Fedora Distribution

[David Highley]

How can we set up HTTP serving of Fedora distribution since we can not
label the files in the ISO? What we have tried:
- copy ISO file into web tree
- loopback mount the ISO to /mnt
- symlink /mnt into the web tree
or
- create directory in web tree
- loopback mount the ISO to directory in web tree

Selinux blocks access to the distribution. The only solution we are
aware of is to drop the pants on selinux by going to permissive mode.

David Highley

[Paul Howarth]

David Highley wrote:
> How can we set up HTTP serving of Fedora distribution since we can not
> label the files in the ISO? What we have tried:
> copy ISO file into web tree
> loopback mount the ISO to /mnt
> symlink /mnt into the web tree
>
> or
> create directory in web tree
> loopback mount the ISO to directory in web tree
>
> Selinux blocks access to the distribution. The only solution we are
> aware of is to drop the pants on selinux by going to permissive mode.

I put the ISO file in my web tree and loopback mount it with a context 
option, e.g. in fstab:

/srv/nb/distros/fc10/os/x86_64/iso/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso 
/srv/nb/distros/fc10/os/x86_64/dvd iso9660 
_netdev,ro,loop,fscontext=system_u:object_r:public_content_t:s0 0 0
/srv/nb/distros/fc10/os/i386/iso/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso 
/srv/nb/distros/fc10/os/i386/dvd iso9660 
_netdev,ro,loop,fscontext=system_u:object_r:public_content_t:s0 0 0

The resulting hierarchy can be exported using ftp, http, rsync, samba, etc.

Paul.