Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

[Louis B. <lou...@hp...>]

Hi Bruno,

Le mardi 09 octobre 2007 =C3=A0 08:10 +0000, Cornec, Bruno (Linux Consultan=
t)
a =C3=A9crit :
> Hello,
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> In order to help spread the adoption of LinuxCOE, I proposed to reuse
> the setp of scripts/tools I developped for the MondoRescue project.
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> Looking at them, they were clearly too tightly integrated with mondo to
> make an easy reuse, so I decided to re-start from scratch and write a
> 3rd version of my packaging tools, this time unrelated to a specific proj=
ect.
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> This is called ProjectBuilder (aka pb). Cf:
> http://trac.project-builder.org
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> The tool is written in perl, and provides the following functions:
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>         cms2build: Create tar files for the project under your CMS
>                    CMS supported are SVN and CVS
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>         build2pkg: Create packages for your running distribution
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>         cms2pkg:   cms2build + build2pkg
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>         build2ssh: Send the tar files to a SSH host
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>         pkg2ssh:   Send the packages built to a SSH host
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>         build2vm:  Create packages in VMs, launching them if needed
>                    and send those packages to a SSH host once built
>                    VM type supported are QEMU
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>         cms2vm:    cms2build + build2vm
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>         launchvm:  Launch one virtual machine
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>         script2vm: Launch one virtual machine if needed
>                    and executes a script on it
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> They are mostly all working for both mondo (SVN) and LinuxCOE (CVS).
> I've produced last week my first packages for Mandriva (my native
> distro) and I'm in the process of upgrading all my VMs (QEMU based) in
> order to be able to produce my next MondoRescue version (2.2.5) using
> that system (60% done). Once it's done, I'll also be able to generate
> packages for LinuxCOE for the same set of distro. All RPMs based distro
> are now working (fedora, rhel, mandriva, sles, suse), and I'm converting =
the
> .deb based VMs. Gentoo, Slackware will follow.
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> Once it's done, I'll be able to share all those VMs (as long as you have
> the necessary place to host them, as they represent around 50 GB right
> now) so that everybody will be able to use the same mecanism to build
> it's own project.
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This is very good news to me ! This is indeed one of the issues in
developing the .spec files : coherent RPM production & testing.

> Now specifically for LinuxCOE, I've worked on systemdesigner and
> systemdesigner-docs packages up to now. But in order to have a useful
> system, I'd need a package supporting one distribution.
> But (there is always a but ;-), packaging a set of binary files is
> really not appealing to me.
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> Have someone already worked on a script that would allow to generate
> from a distro the files needed by LinuxCOE, without embedding them in a
> package ? (after all it's generated so shouldn't be part of neither the
> package, nor the CVS IMHO) ?
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Not to me & Brian either ! This is why we decided to remove the images
out of the RPM/DEBS. A separate tarball containing only the content of
the ./images directory will be made available separately, as well as a
script that will generate the images from a waystation.

I don't now if BG has had time to make the necessary modifications to
the configure/make files required to avoid building the images. Once
it's done, I have the spec files ready to build the Overlay packages
_WITHOUT_ the binaries.

Hope it helps,

...Louis