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Episode: 2487
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Title: HPR2487: Simple LibreOffice Repo for Fedora
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2487/hpr2487.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 04:01:22
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This is HPR Episode 2,487 entitled Simple Legal Office repo for Fedora.
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It is hosted by Toujet and is about 3 minutes long and carrying a clean flag.
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The summary is Simple Legal Office repo for Fedora.
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Hey, this is Toujet.
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Making a quick recording on my way home, please excuse the quality of this recording.
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Today, today I'm recording this, LibreOffice released version 6.
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I like working with LibreOffice on a variety of documents and it seems like each version
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keeps getting better and better.
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My only complaint about it is that on my personal machine I'm running Fedora and they don't
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supply a direct repo from their site.
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I've seen several other people do things and it will not appear in the official repos
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unless you're running raw hide until the next release version of Fedora.
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I like to have the latest version of that.
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And I also don't want to spend a lot of time dealing with each individual machines and
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I don't want to have to take and repeat this every time a new version comes out.
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So I've put together a little script that I've got running on my personal website that
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connects to the Fedora file server, checks for the current versions of the RPM files,
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unloads them, cleans them up and generates an RPM repo that I can then have that repo
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added to all my personal machines at the house.
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The big advantage of this is being an actual repo like that when a new version comes out
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and gets put in there, it will appear as an update just like all the rest of the updates
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I get on my system.
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So I don't really have to do anything more than other than just do the DNF update on my
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machines and I'm done.
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To do that, it's a fairly simple bash grip running on a cron job that goes into checks
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for the current version that it's looking for, which would today release with 6.0.0.
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And it downloads them, puts them all into a folder called 6.0.0 on the server, makes a
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link to that to a 6.0 directory and that 6.0 directory is in reference to my repo file.
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The script will then keep looking for the next version, which will be 6.0.1.
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Now it will not look for a major release, it'll only go for a minor release, a 6.0.1.
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6.1.0 will not be picked up by the script.
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The script updates itself dynamically each time in order to store the value for the next
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time it runs.
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It's simple, straightforward, scratches niche I needed for updating all these machines
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and I don't have to worry about it.
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Bringing on a cron job means that it automatically downloads and updates on the background.
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You couldn't look and try to run it off of the server, I'll have links for the scripts
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and everything in the show notes.
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But if you try to access it off my server, it won't block you, but it'll be pretty slow
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on access because of my home connection.
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But either way, it was a simple problem ahead and a simple way that I fix it and I hope
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you like this. Send some feedback to me, let me know what you think, and I hope to have
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more episodes out soon.
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Thank you.
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You've been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio dot org.
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