Getting Started

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the step-by-step process of getting started with syncing and federating package metadata.

Note

This tutorial assumes that you have a working installation of FederatedCode. If you don’t, please refer to the Installation page.

Create Admin User

python manage.py createsuperuser

Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ and log in using the credentials created in the previous step.

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/fedcode/service/add/ and create a service. Select the newly created superuser as the user, and leave the “remote-actor” field empty.

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/create-repo and add the repository URL: https://github.com/<YOUR-USER-NAME>/aboutcode-packages-npm-385

Run the following command to sync the scan metadata from the FederatedCode Git repository

python manage.py sync sync_scancode_scans

Run the following command to send activity updates to existing subscribers of the package

python manage.py federate