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

Thu Mar 10 12:17:11 CET 2011

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.
+
+