candlepin as rpm

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Thu Apr 8 12:54:00 UTC 2010


On 04/08/2010 08:50 AM, Adam Young wrote:
> On 04/07/2010 11:14 PM, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Adam Young<ayoung at redhat.com>   wrote:
>>
>>      
>>>> How hard are the above issues to address?
>>>>
>>>> 1. is trivial will be done probably before you read this email.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Is this a debug thing?  You should be able to deploy the .war file
>>> directly to the server/depoly directory in JBoss.
>>>
>>>        
>> No, it's more of an RPM thing. It allows you to own the directory that
>> gets exploded and when you remove the rpm it takes it with it.
>> It also helps in being able to create rpms that depend on the candlepin rpm
>> which can lay down jars in /path/to/deploy/candlepin/WEB-INF/lib/ making it
>> a lot easier to deploy service implementations.
>>
>>
>>      
>>>> 2. this is a bit more difficult because we need a way to update
>>>>       the candlepin_info.properties on the fly and the build isn't
>>>>       running in a git checkout at the time of the rpm build.
>>>>
>>>>       How important is the candlepin_info.properties with a git hash?
>>>>
>>>> 3. requiring rubygem-buildr is the proper way to do it, but if the
>>>>       rpm isn't ready for folks to deploy, then the candlepin rpm
>>>>       won't be buildable yet.
>>>>
>>>>       Changing it to require /usr/bin/buildr will make it buildable
>>>>       now and *will* require changing once we have a proper rpm of
>>>>       buildr.
>>>>
>>>>       An alternative is to BuildRequires: ant, add a build.xml to build
>>>>       the code just for the rpm. (sorry I ain't doing no  maven rpm).
>>>>
>>>>       I'm leaning towards simply requiring /usr/bin/buildr for now, and
>>>>       merge it into master for now with a new item to finalize the
>>>>       buildr rpm.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> The Buildr RPM works now, so long as we don't need to run the cucumber
>>> tests.  All RPMS required are in :
>>> http://admiyo.fedorapeople.org/buildr/RPMS/
>>>
>>> I'll eventually get a Yum repo set up, but wget those and install should
>>> work for now, so long as you haven't run
>>> "ruby system --update"
>>>
>>>        
>> Ok I'll update my rpms. If you want to you could just run createrepo -d
>> on the directory you have those RPMS in and then rsync the repo metadata
>> files to your people account. Unless you don't want a repo right now for
>> some reason.
>>
>>      
> Yeah, I did that on my local machine.  No createrepo on the remote, so
> I'll rsync over from local.
>    
http://admiyo.fedorapeople.org/buildr-repo/


>>
>>      
>>>> 4. I think the best way is to *pass* in the version number to the
>>>>       build command from the spec file, and have the buildfile read
>>>>       the version from the spec file during dev builds.
>>>>
>>>>       In other words, in the candlepin.spec the %build section will look
>>>>       as follows: buildr clean test=no package version=%{version}
>>>>
>>>>       I'm not sure if this is even possible on the buildr side, but since
>>>>       it can do anything ruby and rake can, it's probably doable.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I'm not sure I understand the issue here.
>>>
>>>        
>> the buildfile has a VERSION=1.0.0 which NEVER changes. And
>> the candlepin.spec file has a Version=1.0.1 (which is incremented by
>> tito during the tagging process. It would be best if we kept them
>> consistent. To me the buildfile should use the one passed in from
>> the rpm during build, and for development purposes i.e. buildr package
>> from your git tree it should use the git hash as the version number.
>>
>>
>> jesus
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