[Mageia-sysadm] Deploying updated packages on buildsystem

[nicolas vigier]

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Olivier Blin wrote:

> nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sometimes we need to deploy updated packages on the buildsystem, for
> > instance for youri, iurt, mgarepo, rpmlint, puppet or others ...
> >
> > At the moment we rebuild the package somewhere and install it manually.
> > Or sometimes don't rebuild the package but only copy the modified files
> > (for mdv-youri-submit for instance).
> 
> When I have to deploy packages for the BS hosts running Mandriva 2010.1
> x86_64, I usually build the packages with iurt from jonund (IIRC, it's
> the most powerful BS node, so it is less likely to impact normal BS
> users).
> 
> Here's a command that can be used (on jonund as iurt user) to rebuild
> a src.rpm for Mandriva 2010.1 (potentially with BR from contrib):
> 
> iurt --chrooted-urpmi -m contrib/release main/release -- \
>   http://repository.mageia.org/mandriva/ -r mandriva2010.1 x86_64 \
>   ./mga-mirrors-0.05-1.mga1.src.rpm
> 
> Maybe we could agree on this process to build package updates?
> (i.e. using this iurt command as iurt user on jonund)

Thanks.

Yes we should agree on a process for this.

We can create a repository in /distrib/mandriva/mgaservers2010.1/x86_64.

> 
> > I think it would be convenient to have a repository where we can submit
> > packages using the build system, and enable this repository on all
> > the servers.
> >
> > Unfortunatly, we are still using Mandriva 2010.1 on the servers, so it
> > is more complicate. What we can do :
> >  - Make this repository based on mandriva 2010.1 on the build system
> >  - Make this repository based on cauldron on the build system, and use 
> >    it on our servers running 2010.1. Some packages will not work because
> >    of different version of python or perl or other dependency.
> >    But we can still use it for youri and rpmlint-mageia-policy, and
> >    rebuild/install the others manually.
> >  - Don't do it now and wait until we migrated the servers to Mageia
> 
> It would be convenient to have a repository with our 2010.1 packages,
> using packages built for cauldron won't work.
> 
> Though, maybe it's overkill to setup the whole chain (svn, submit,
> youri) for this.

Yes. It would be nice to have a repository with svn, submit, youri, but
we can wait until we're running Mageia on the servers to do that.