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

Thu Mar 10 00:22:36 CET 2011

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.
+
+>  - 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/
+
+