Description Unknown for Non ProxMox Templates

apmuthu

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In the ProxMox VE v1.1 browser GUI Templates page, all non ProxMox Templates have their description blank. Any way to enable it? The info file and the description are present and formatted as recommended in the dab application builder and man dab pages..
 
Where to look in order to edit

Looks like the
Code:
pveam update
that is automatically performed daily will execute the perl file at :-
Code:
/usr/share/perl5/PVE/APLInfo.pm
Then it downloads the following two files:-
Code:
[URL]http://download.proxmox.com/appliances/aplinfo.dat.gz[/URL]
[URL]http://download.proxmox.com/appliances/aplinfo.dat.asc[/URL]

The asc file contains the GPG signatures and the dat.gz file is a compressed file containing the proxmox copyright header, official ProxMox Templates available, their download and support links along with their MD5 hashes. The dat.gz file is extracted to
Code:
/tmp/pveam.tmp
file which is then copied as
Code:
/var/lib/pve-manager/apl-available
. This is done also when the apl-available is missing.

This apl-available file does not contain any of the non ProxMox Template info. In order to implement this functionality, it can either be parsed off the Wiki or a fresh aplinfo.dat.gz that contains the necessary info be uploaded.

I trust this will not take too much trouble to do. The FrontAccounting and eyeOS Templates have been downloaded over 20 times in the last 2 days. Adequate proof for this issue to be remedied forthwith.

Please let me know if there is any other file to be altered for achieving the same.
 
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Temporary Workaround

As a temporary workaround, you may append the following to the aplinfo.dat file that is compressed as aplinfo.dat.gz :-
Code:
Name: eyeos
Version: 1.8.5.0-3
Type: openvz
OS: debian-5.0
Section: www
Maintainer: Ap Muthu <apmuthu@usa.net>
Location: http://www.chrishonline.com/files/debian-5.0-eyeos_1.8.5.0-3_i386.tar.gz
Infopage: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/EyeOS
ManageUrl: http://__IPADDRESS__/
md5sum: f5336acb146de4174965568024443a51
Description: eyeOS Desktop
 eyeOS is the Cloud Computing Operating System.
 Work online personally or collaboratively with your
 files, office, calendar, contacts and much more.
 Your data is safe and always available
 eyeOS is Free Software!
 
Name: frontaccount
Version: 2.1.2-1
Type: openvz
OS: debian-5.0
Section: www
Maintainer: Ap.Muthu <apmuthu@usa.net>
Location: [URL]http://www.chrishonline.com/files/debian-5.0-frontaccount_2.1.2-1_i386.tar.gz[/URL]
Infopage: [URL]http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/FrontAccounting[/URL]
ManageUrl: [URL]http://__IPADDRESS__/[/URL]
md5sum: 16bea28fae278ab2d7d71e80ee8f11cc
Description: FrontAccounting is an entire ERP
 Web based FrontAccounting is a simple, but powerful, system for the entire ERP chain based on PHP / MySQL and covers:
 Purchase Orders 
 Goods Receivable Notes 
 Supplier Invoices/Credit Notes 
 Payments 
 Allocations 
 Accounts Payable 
 Items and Inventory 
 Stock 
 Manufacturing 
 Sales Orders 
 Customer Invoices/Credit Notes 
 Deposits 
 Allocations 
 Accounts Receivable 
 Dimensions 
 General Ledger with Budget 
 Languages 
 Currencies 
 Several Companies
 
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