rocky-man/README.md

To create a persistent pod

podman create -it --name rocky-9-man -v $(pwd):/data/ rockylinux:9 /bin/bash
podman exec -it rocky-9-man /bin/bash

To create a temp pod

podman run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/data/ rockylinux:9 /bin/bash

Then cd /data

Install Dependencies

dnf install -y epel-release
dnf install -y python3 python3-dnf python3-rpm python3-requests python3-pip python3-jinja2 python3-aiohttp python3-zstandard mandoc

Set alternative python if you need to

alternatives --set python $(which python3)

And run

python3 rocky_man.py 

This will download all appstream and baseos for 9.5 and 8.10 into ./tmp and the finished html will be saved to ./html.

TODO:

• Add async
• Investigate "Error downloading package: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 220: invalid continuation byte"
• Delete files after they have been processed or at the end