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

Fri Mar 11 19:32:34 CET 2011

On 11 March 2011 12:00, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>> yeah, so i'm gonna see how far it get with iurt...
+>
+> Having a working out of the box package of iurt would be a killer
+> feature. Fedora does offer mock for that, and that's quite handy.
+
+until you want to build packages for RHEL.
+RHN satellite doesn't export its packages as yum repositories.
+So you have to either play with mrepo or have a build machine per RHEL version,
+with subscriptions to every channel.
+Plus you've to wrote mock config file (not hard) in the former case.
+In the second case, you've to patch mock in order to use rhn plugin.
+
+On the other hand, iurt only needs an URL.
+We only have to add support for config files that would embed
+"$RELEASE.$ARCH" like URIs
+so that we use whatever mirrors are the best/are available.
+Sg like:
+/etc/iurt/mga-cauldaron.cfg:
+URI=http://api.mageia.org/...
+ARCH=x86_64
+
+/etc/iurt/mdv-2011.cfg:
+URL=http://api.mandriva.com/distributions/basic.i586.list?product=Powerpack
+ARCH=i586
+