[Mageia-dev] help wanted for building a buildnode-in-a-VM

[nicolas vigier]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:

> Op donderdag 10 maart 2011 00:22:36 schreef nicolas vigier:
> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > for the purpose of testing package building locally;
> > > 
> > >  - you're a careful packager and test out everything locally before
> > >  submitting - you're a novice packager and want to practise
> > > 
> > > i would like to make a VM that acts like a buildnode, with the following
> > > 
> > > requirements:
> > >  - mageia system (not mandriva)
> > >  - preferably headless
> > >  - ssh on by default
> > >  - building 32bit AND 64bit packages
> > >  - using chroots to build and preferably having basesystem chroots on it.
> > >  also
> > > 
> > > cleans up so buildrequires are properly tested, and lint checking and
> > > what else a buildnode normally does.
> > 
> > This can be done using iurt.
> 
> so, how exactly does this work? iurt automagically build basesystem chroots 
> and chrootbuilds stuff? is there any task that is needed for this kind of 
> thing?

Yes. See iurt package. And iurt config file used on the cluster :
http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/puppet/modules/buildsystem/templates/iurt.cauldron.conf?revision=734&view=markup

> > >  - no signing step
> > >  - still as small as possible so it can be put somewhere for downloading.
> > >  - nice to have is possibly a sort of local submission tree so submitting
> > > 
> > > could also be practised.
> > 
> > You mean installing a full build system in a VM ?
> > 
> > You can try to do it using puppet, and the puppet modules on svn :
> > http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/
> 
> well, i donno, i don't know puppet and this is not meant to be used in a 
> controlled environment, but just built like this and people use it locally. 
> there is not really any need to remote control this machine. just a one time 
> setup.

The easiest way to setup a buildsystem is using puppet. Otherwise it
will be more difficult.