Chapter 6. Configuration: the Metaproxy configuration file format

Table of Contents

Introductory notes
Overview of the config file XML structure
An example configuration
Config file modularity
Config file syntax checking

Introductory notes

If Metaproxy is an interpreter providing operations on packages, then its configuration file can be thought of as a program for that interpreter. Configuration is by means of a single XML file, the name of which is supplied as the sole command-line argument to the metaproxy program. (See Reference below for more information on invoking Metaproxy.)