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

Thu Mar 10 01:49:47 CET 2011

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?
+
+> >  - 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 local submission tree to test submission on, is a nice to have, but not 
+really needed as such.
+
+i was thinking on using the urpmi-proxy i made, to use the submissions AND a 
+local mirror (built gradually) to use for chrooted insides. so that would mean 
+the initial package would be very small, and tests with multiple local 
+packages would still work. well.
+
+but it's a nice to have...
+
+