[Mageia-sysadm] Deploying updated packages on buildsystem

Thu Apr 7 20:26:14 CEST 2011

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Olivier Blin wrote:
+
+> nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> writes:
+> 
+> > Hello,
+> >
+> > Sometimes we need to deploy updated packages on the buildsystem, for
+> > instance for youri, iurt, mgarepo, rpmlint, puppet or others ...
+> >
+> > At the moment we rebuild the package somewhere and install it manually.
+> > Or sometimes don't rebuild the package but only copy the modified files
+> > (for mdv-youri-submit for instance).
+> 
+> When I have to deploy packages for the BS hosts running Mandriva 2010.1
+> x86_64, I usually build the packages with iurt from jonund (IIRC, it's
+> the most powerful BS node, so it is less likely to impact normal BS
+> users).
+> 
+> Here's a command that can be used (on jonund as iurt user) to rebuild
+> a src.rpm for Mandriva 2010.1 (potentially with BR from contrib):
+> 
+> iurt --chrooted-urpmi -m contrib/release main/release -- \
+>   http://repository.mageia.org/mandriva/ -r mandriva2010.1 x86_64 \
+>   ./mga-mirrors-0.05-1.mga1.src.rpm
+> 
+> Maybe we could agree on this process to build package updates?
+> (i.e. using this iurt command as iurt user on jonund)
+
+Thanks.
+
+Yes we should agree on a process for this.
+
+We can create a repository in /distrib/mandriva/mgaservers2010.1/x86_64.
+
+> 
+> > I think it would be convenient to have a repository where we can submit
+> > packages using the build system, and enable this repository on all
+> > the servers.
+> >
+> > Unfortunatly, we are still using Mandriva 2010.1 on the servers, so it
+> > is more complicate. What we can do :
+> >  - Make this repository based on mandriva 2010.1 on the build system
+> >  - Make this repository based on cauldron on the build system, and use 
+> >    it on our servers running 2010.1. Some packages will not work because
+> >    of different version of python or perl or other dependency.
+> >    But we can still use it for youri and rpmlint-mageia-policy, and
+> >    rebuild/install the others manually.
+> >  - Don't do it now and wait until we migrated the servers to Mageia
+> 
+> It would be convenient to have a repository with our 2010.1 packages,
+> using packages built for cauldron won't work.
+> 
+> Though, maybe it's overkill to setup the whole chain (svn, submit,
+> youri) for this.
+
+Yes. It would be nice to have a repository with svn, submit, youri, but
+we can wait until we're running Mageia on the servers to do that.
+
+