Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

I've got room to host those files on my Instalinux web hosting.  I
think my quota is around 250GB, and I'm using around 35GB...

Chris

On 10/9/07, Louis Bouchard <lou...@hp...> wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
>
> Le mardi 09 octobre 2007 =E0 08:10 +0000, Cornec, Bruno (Linux Consultant=
)
> a =E9crit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > In order to help spread the adoption of LinuxCOE, I proposed to reuse
> > the setp of scripts/tools I developped for the MondoRescue project.
> >
> > 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 pr=
oject.
> >
> > This is called ProjectBuilder (aka pb). Cf:
> > http://trac.project-builder.org
> >
> > The tool is written in perl, and provides the following functions:
> >
> >         cms2build: Create tar files for the project under your CMS
> >                    CMS supported are SVN and CVS
> >
> >         build2pkg: Create packages for your running distribution
> >
> >         cms2pkg:   cms2build + build2pkg
> >
> >         build2ssh: Send the tar files to a SSH host
> >
> >         pkg2ssh:   Send the packages built to a SSH host
> >
> >         build2vm:  Create packages in VMs, launching them if needed
> >                    and send those packages to a SSH host once built
> >                    VM type supported are QEMU
> >
> >         cms2vm:    cms2build + build2vm
> >
> >         launchvm:  Launch one virtual machine
> >
> >         script2vm: Launch one virtual machine if needed
> >                    and executes a script on it
> >
> >
> > 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 convertin=
g the
> > .deb based VMs. Gentoo, Slackware will follow.
> >
> > Once it's done, I'll be able to share all those VMs (as long as you hav=
e
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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) ?
> >
>
> 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
>
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