diff --git a/roles/repo2json/files/repo2json.cron b/roles/repo2json/files/repo2json.cron
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+45 * * * * root cd /srv/web/repojson && /usr/local/bin/repo2json
diff --git a/roles/repo2json/files/rhel_to_json.py b/roles/repo2json/files/rhel_to_json.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+
+"""
+This script extracts the content of the primary.sqlite databases used by
+RHEL and generates a big JSON out of it so that we can easily check which
+packages already are in RHEL and on which arch.
+
+requires:
+ sqlalchemy
+ lzma (only if there are .xz compressed primary.sqlite db)
+
+"""
+
+# These two lines are needed to run on EL6
+__requires__ = ['SQLAlchemy >= 0.7']
+import pkg_resources
+
+
+import contextlib
+import json
+import os
+import shutil
+import sys
+import tempfile
+
+
+# Database related part
+
+from sqlalchemy import Column, ForeignKey, Integer, Text, create_engine
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+
+
+BASE = declarative_base()
+
+
+class Package(BASE):
+    ''' Maps the packages table in the primary.sqlite database from
+    repodata to a python object.
+    '''
+    __tablename__ = 'packages'
+    pkgKey = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+    name = Column(Text)
+    rpm_sourcerpm = Column(Text)
+    version = Column(Text)
+    epoch = Column(Text)
+    release = Column(Text)
+    arch = Column(Text)
+
+    @property
+    def basename(self):
+        ''' Return the base package name using the rpm_sourcerpms info. '''
+        return self.rpm_sourcerpm.rsplit('-', 2)[0]
+
+
+# Here below we tell the script where to look for the repodata, we could
+# point it to the top level, but then we would miss the differences between
+# el5, 6 and 7.
+# I tried to create some rhel5 and rhel6 folders in which I sym-linked the
+# respective el5/6 folder from the level above. The problem was that
+# os.path.walk() doesn't follow links, so it would not find any repodata.
+
+PATHS = {
+    'el7': [
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel7/',
+    ],
+    'el6': [
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-ha-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-ha-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-lb-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-lb-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-optional-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-optional-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-rs-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc64-server-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc64-server-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-rs-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc64-server-ha-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc64-server-lb-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc64-server-optional-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc64-server-optional-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-6-ost-preview',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevh',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhs-rhsc-2.0',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-ha-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-ha-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-lb-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-optional-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-lb-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-rhsclient-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-rs-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-rs-fastrack-6',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-sfs-6',
+    ],
+    'el5': [
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-5-mrg-grid-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-5-mrg-grid-execute-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-5-mrg-management-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-5-mrg-messaging-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-5-mrg-messaging-base-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-5-mrg-realtime-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-cluster-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-cluster-storage-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-fastrack-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-productivity-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-i386-server-vt-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc-server-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc-server-5-mrg-messaging-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc-server-5-mrg-messaging-base-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc-server-cluster-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc-server-cluster-storage-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc-server-fastrack-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc-server-productivity-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-ppc-server-vt-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-5-mrg-grid-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-5-mrg-grid-execute-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-5-mrg-management-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-5-mrg-messaging-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-5-mrg-messaging-base-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-5-mrg-realtime-1/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-fastrack-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-productivity-5/',
+        '/mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/rhel/rhel-x86_64-server-vt-5/',
+    ],
+}
+
+
+def find_primary_sqlite(paths):
+    ''' Find all the primary.sqlite files located at or under the given
+    path.
+    '''
+    if not isinstance(paths, list):
+        paths = [paths]
+    files = []
+    for path in paths:
+        if not os.path.isdir(path):
+            continue
+        for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(path):
+            for filename in filenames:
+                if 'primary.sqlite' in filename:
+                    files.append(os.path.join(dirpath, filename))
+    return files
+
+
+def decompress_primary_db(archive, location):
+    ''' Decompress the given XZ archive at the specified location. '''
+    if archive.endswith('.xz'):
+        import lzma
+        with contextlib.closing(lzma.LZMAFile(archive)) as stream_xz:
+            data = stream_xz.read()
+        with open(location, 'wb') as stream:
+            stream.write(data)
+    elif archive.endswith('.gz'):
+        import tarfile
+        with tarfile.open(archive) as tar:
+            tar.extractall(path=location)
+    elif archive.endswith('.bz2'):
+        import bz2
+        with open(location, 'w') as out:
+            bzar = bz2.BZ2File(archive)
+            out.write(bzar.read())
+            bzar.close()
+    elif archive.endswith('.sqlite'):
+        with open(location, 'w') as out:
+            with open(archive) as inp:
+                out.write(inp.read())
+
+
+def get_pkg_info(session, pkg_name):
+    ''' Query the sqlite database for the package specified. '''
+    pkg = session.query(Package).filter(Package.name == pkg_name).one()
+    return pkg
+
+
+def main():
+    ''' Main function, does the job :) '''
+    working_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='rhel2json-')
+    print 'working dir:', working_dir
+
+    for el in PATHS:
+
+        output = {}
+
+        dbfiles = find_primary_sqlite(PATHS[el])
+
+        for dbfile_xz in dbfiles:
+            cur_fold = os.path.join(*dbfile_xz.rsplit(os.sep, 2)[:-2])
+            print '-', cur_fold
+            dbfile = os.path.join(working_dir, 'primary_db_%s.sqlite' % el)
+            decompress_primary_db(dbfile_xz, dbfile)
+
+            if not os.path.isfile(dbfile):
+                print '%s was incorrectly decompressed -- ignoring' % dbfile
+                continue
+
+            db_url = 'sqlite:///%s' % dbfile
+            db_session = sessionmaker(bind=create_engine(db_url))
+            session = db_session()
+
+            cnt = 0
+            new = 0
+            for pkg in session.query(Package).all():
+                if pkg.basename in output:
+                    if pkg.arch not in output[pkg.basename]['arch']:
+                        output[pkg.basename]['arch'].append(pkg.arch)
+                    # TODO: checks if the evr is more recent or not
+                    # (and update if it is)
+                else:
+                    new += 1
+                    output[pkg.basename] = {
+                        'arch': [pkg.arch],
+                        'epoch': pkg.epoch,
+                        'version': pkg.version,
+                        'release': pkg.release,
+                    }
+                cnt += 1
+            print '%s packages in %s' % (cnt, cur_fold)
+            print '%s packages were new packages' % (new)
+
+        print '\n%s packages retrieved in %s' % (len(output), el)
+        outputfile = 'pkg_%s.json' % el
+        with open(outputfile, 'w') as stream:
+            stream.write(json.dumps(output))
+        print 'Output File: %s\n' % outputfile
+
+    # Drop the temp directory
+    shutil.rmtree(working_dir)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/roles/repo2json/tasks/main.yml b/roles/repo2json/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+# Configuration for the fedocal webapp
+
+- name: clean yum metadata
+  command: yum clean all
+  tags:
+  - packages
+  - repo2json
+
+- name: Install necessary packages
+  yum: pkg={{ item }} state=present
+  with_items:
+  - python-sqlalchemy0.7
+  - pyliblzma
+  tags:
+  - packages
+  - repo2json
+
+- name: Ensure that the output dir exists
+  file: dest=/srv/web/repojson owner=root group=root mode=0755 state=directory
+  tags:
+  - repo2json
+
+- name: Install the rhel_to_json script and cron
+  copy: src={{ item.file }} dest={{ item.dest }}
+        owner=root group=root mode={{ item.mode }}
+  with_items:
+  - { file: rhel_to_json.py, dest: /usr/bin/local/rhel_to_json.py, mode: 755 }
+  - { file: repo2json.cron, dest: /etc/cron.d/repo2json.cron, mode: 644 }
+  tags:
+  - cron
+  - repo2json