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Add chapter for installing from source with signature verification. Resolves #795.
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How to install cdist
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Requirements
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Source Host
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This is the machine from which you will configure target hosts.
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* /bin/sh: A posix like shell (for instance bash, dash, zsh)
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* Python >= 3.2
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* SSH client
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* sphinx (for building html docs and/or the man pages)
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Target Hosts
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* /bin/sh: A posix like shell (for instance bash, dash, zsh)
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* SSH server
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Install cdist
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From git
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Cloning cdist from git gives you the advantage of having
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a version control in place for development of your own stuff
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immediately.
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To install cdist, execute the following commands:
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.. code-block:: sh
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git clone https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/cdist.git
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cd cdist
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export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd -P)/bin
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From version 4.2.0 cdist tags and releases are signed.
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You can get GPG public key used for signing `here <_static/pgp-key-EFD2AE4EC36B6901.asc>`_.
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It is assumed that you are familiar with *git* ways of signing and verification.
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You can also get cdist from `github mirror <https://github.com/ungleich/cdist>`_.
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To install cdist with distutils from cloned repository, first you have to
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create version.py:
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.. code-block:: sh
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./bin/build-helper version
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Then you install it with:
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.. code-block:: sh
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make install
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or with:
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.. code-block:: sh
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make install-user
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to install it into user *site-packages* directory.
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Or directly with distutils:
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.. code-block:: sh
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python setup.py install
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Note that `bin/build-helper` script is intended for cdist maintainers.
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Available versions in git
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* The active development takes place in the **master** branch
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* The released versions can be found in the tags
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Other branches may be available for features or bugfixes, but they
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may vanish at any point. To select a specific branch use
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.. code-block:: sh
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# Generic code
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git checkout -b <localbranchname> origin/<branchname>
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So for instance if you want to use and stay with version 4.1, you can use
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.. code-block:: sh
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git checkout -b 4.1 origin/4.1
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Building and using documentation (man and html)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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If you want to build and use the documentation, run:
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.. code-block:: sh
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make docs
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Documentation comes in two formats, man pages and full HTML
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documentation. Documentation is built into distribution's
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docs/dist directory. man pages are in docs/dist/man and
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HTML documentation in docs/dist/html.
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If you want to use man pages, run:
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.. code-block:: sh
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export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$(pwd -P)/docs/dist/man
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Or you can move man pages from docs/dist/man directory to some
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other directory and add it to MANPATH.
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Full HTML documentation can be accessed at docs/dist/html/index.html.
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You can also build only man pages or only html documentation, for
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only man pages run:
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.. code-block:: sh
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make man
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for only html documentation run:
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.. code-block:: sh
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make html
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You can also build man pages for types in your ~/.cdist directory:
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.. code-block:: sh
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make dotman
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Built man pages are now in docs/dist/man directory. If you have
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some other custom .cdist directory, e.g. /opt/cdist then use:
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.. code-block:: sh
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make DOT_CDIST_PATH=/opt/cdist dotman
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Note that `dotman`-target has to be built before a `make docs`-run, otherwise
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the custom man-pages are not picked up.
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Python package
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Cdist is available as a python package at
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`PyPi <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdist/>`_. You can install it using
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.. code-block:: sh
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pip install cdist
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Installing from source with signature verification
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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If you want to install cdist from signed source and verify it, first you need to
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download cdist archive and its detached signature.
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Get both, *cdist-x.y.z.tar.gz* and *cdist-x.y.z.tar.gz.asc* from release
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notes of the desired tag *x.y.z* at
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`cdist git repository <https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/cdist/-/tags>`_.
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Get GPG public key used for signing `here <_static/pgp-key-EFD2AE4EC36B6901.asc>`_
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and import it into GPG.
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Now cdist source archive can be verified using `gpg`, e.g. to verify `cdist-6.2.0`:
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.. code-block:: sh
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$ gpg --verify cdist-6.2.0.tar.gz.asc cdist-6.2.0.targ.gz
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gpg: Signature made Sat Nov 30 23:14:19 2019 CET
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gpg: using RSA key 69767822F3ECC3C349C1EFFFEFD2AE4EC36B6901
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gpg: Good signature from "ungleich GmbH (ungleich FOSS) <foss@ungleich.ch>" [ultimate]
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Further steps are the same as for `installing from git <cdist-install.html#from-git>`_.
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