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

Thu Mar 10 00:06:08 CET 2011

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.
+ - 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.
+
+Since i don't know much about the buildsystem, i would like someone to help 
+out with these parts; possibly explaining a few things, possibly having some 
+usefull scripts to do this.
+
+if someone has added requirements, suggestions, or some info to help me, or 
+just interested in helping out with this, by all means.
+
+Regards,
+
+Maarten (aka AL13N)
+