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== Setting up RPM Building for SME Server ==

http://www.openfusion.net/linux/mocking_rpms

Mock is a Fedora project that allows you to build RPM packages within a chroot environment, allowing you to build packages for other systems than the one you're running on (e.g. building CentOS 4 32-bit RPMs on a CentOS 5 64-bit host), and ensuring that all the required build dependencies are specified correctly in the RPM spec file. You can find more example  [[Rpm_build_example_using_cvs/mock|of how using Mock]]

==== Prerequisites ====
=====Installation Centos6 minimal=====
* It is recommended that you use the latest CentOS 6 (64bit) version as a base http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/ this has been verified to build for SME 7, 8 & 9 and for i386 &x86_64
Just install a minimal el6 installation. You can use either the DVD, the minimal CD install, a net install with PXE, it's up to you. Of course if you prefer you can use a system with a Xorg-server installed (eg: gnome, kde, xfce...) 
* Setup network:
To start the networking
 [root@buildcos9 ~]# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth eth0
* Set DHCP to install basic utilities
 [root@buildcos9 ~]#  dhclient eth0
* Install utilities
 [root@buildcos9 ~]# yum install nano system-config-network-tui mc man htop top iftop iptraf screen openssh-clients mlocate
* Finalise network setup
 [root@buildcos9 ~]# nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and set manually:

 DEVICE="eth0"
 BOOTPROTO="none"
 HWADDR="00:E0:4C:68:21:6D"
 IPADDR=192.168.xxx.12
 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
 GATEWAY=192.168.xxx.3
 DNS1=192.168.xxx.3 
 IPV6INIT=no
 NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
 ONBOOT="YES"
 TYPE="Ethernet"
 UUID="fe6ebc0d-dbee-4bf6-a3cf-5e84c5453549"

Check and restart:
 [root@buildcos9 ~]# chkconfig network on
 [root@buildcos9 ~]# service network restart

*  Enable SSH
SSH is present but is disabled at this stage. To enable ssh issue:
 service sshd start

You may have a slow login to ssh, if needed :
 nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

And change the “UseDNS yes” field to “UseDNS no”.
Now change the “GSSAPIAuthentication yes” line to “GSSAPIAuthentication no”.

You have to restart the ssh service or the server

* Reboot system to ensure all new config are permanent
  [root@buildcos9 ~]# reboot

*Disable SELinux
It will be easier to see what's going on (and turn off selinux at kernel level, just to be sure)
 [root@buildcos9 ~]# sed -i -e 's/rhgb quiet/selinux=0/g' /boot/grub/grub.conf
 [root@buildcos9 ~]# sed -i -e 's/SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/g' /etc/selinux/config

* Remove selinux-policy-targeted and authconfig -they conflict with some e-smith/smeserver packages
 [root@buildcos9 ~]# yum remove selinux-policy-targeted authconfig


* Apply all available updates.
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
yum update
</syntaxhighlight>

* You need to have EPEL repository configured as EPELs version of mock will be used
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
# Enable EPEL for Centos 6
rpm -Uvh http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
</syntaxhighlight>

* You need to create a new user, for mock will not accept user root for building packages
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-collapsetext="Collapse" data-expandtext="More on creating a sudo user">

<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
useradd <username>
passwd <username>
</syntaxhighlight>
The new user needs to be granted sudo rights
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
yum install sudo
/usr/sbin/usermod -aG wheel <username>
</syntaxhighlight>

Edit the file /etc/sudoers:
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
nano /etc/sudoers
</syntaxhighlight>
go down and find the following lines:

<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
 # %wheel	ALL=(ALL)	ALL
</syntaxhighlight>

and remove the hash in front of %wheel so it looks like...
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
%wheel	ALL=(ALL)	ALL
</syntaxhighlight>

Log out as root and login as <username>
</div>


So then the installation of mock is just:

==== Installing Mock ====
{{note box|Mock creates chroots and builds packages in them. Its only task is to reliably populate a chroot and attempt to build a package in that chroot. Mock is currently being used for all Fedora builds. Mock takes a srpm and builds it in a chroot. This ensures that your [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRequires_2 BuildRequires] lines are correct, that there are no missing dependencies, and that it builds cleanly. The [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock Mock project] page has more information on Mock.}}

Install mock, make and rpm-build and python-ctypes packages (the latter for better setarch support)
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install mock python-ctypes glances
sudo yum install make rpm-build wget
</syntaxhighlight>
Add yourself to the 'mock' group that will have now been created
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -G mock <username>
</syntaxhighlight>

The mock package creates an /etc/mock directory with configs for various OS versions (mostly Fedoras). Shad has provided working configurations for SME Server here http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/ 

Copy all the .cfg files into /etc/mock including overwriting the site-defaults.cfg
* Remove dup file as root 
 [root@buildcos9 mock]# cd /etc/mock/

 [root@buildcos9 mock]# rm site-defaults.cfg

 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/site-defaults.cfg

 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/smeserver-8-i386-base.cfg
 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/smeserver-8-i386-iso.cfg
 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/smeserver-8-x86_64-base.cfg
 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/smeserver-8-x86_64-iso.cfg
 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/smeserver-9-i386-base.cfg
 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/smeserver-9-i386-iso.cfg
 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/smeserver-9-x86_64-base.cfg
 wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/contribs/slords/mock/smeserver-9-x86_64-iso.cfg

* Change group ownership to mock:
 [root@buildcos9 mock]# chown root:mock /etc/mock/*

* workaround
if the tag 'sme' is not added  to the built package see [[bugzilla:8636]] and add <br />

to smeserver-8-i386-base.cfg & smeserver-8-x86_64-base.cfg
 config_opts['macros']['%dist'] = ".el5.sme"
to smeserver-9-i386-base.cfg & smeserver-9-x86_64-base.cfg
 config_opts['macros']['%dist'] = ".el6.sme"

==== Testing building environment ====

You can then run a test by doing:

 # e.g. initialise a smeserver-9-x86_64-base chroot environment
 [chris@build-system SRPMS] $ CONFIG=smeserver-9-x86_64-base
 [chris@build-system SRPMS] $ mock -r $CONFIG --init

It might take a while to configure at the "Start: yum update"

which will setup an initial chroot environment using the given config. If that seemed to work (you weren't inundated with error messages), you can try a build

=====Perform a Build for sme9 64 bits from an SRPM=====
You will need an SRPM, for instance from http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/releases/testing/9/smeupdates-testing/SRPMS/
you can use '''wget''' to download it in your terminal
 # Rebuild the given source RPM within the chroot environment
 # usage: mock -r <mock_config> --rebuild /path/to/SRPM e.g.
  [chris@build-system SRPMS]$ CONFIG=smeserver-9-x86_64-base
  [chris@build-system SRPMS] $ mock -r $CONFIG --rebuild ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/e-smith-runit-2.4.0-1.el6.sme.src.rpm

If the build succeeds, it drops your packages into the /var/lib/mock/$CONFIG/result directory. 
If it fails, you can check mock output, the *.log files above for more info, and/or rerun mock with the -v flag for more verbose messaging. 
If you get "warning: Could not canonicalize hostname: " it can be ignored. This is a DNS resolution error and the easy solution is to add your hostname to /etc/hosts

 ls -1 /var/lib/mock/smeserver-9-x86_64/result
 build.log
 e-smith-runit-2.4.0-1.el6.sme.noarch.rpm
 e-smith-runit-2.4.0-1.el6.sme.src.rpm
 root.log
 state.log

=====Perform a Build for sme9 32 bits from an SRPM=====
 [chris@build-system SRPMS]$ CONFIG=smeserver-9-i386-base
 [chris@build-system SRPMS] $ mock -r $CONFIG --rebuild ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/e-smith-runit-2.4.0-1.el6.sme.src.rpm

=====Perform a Build for sme8 64 bits from an SRPM=====
 [chris@build-system SRPMS]$ wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/releases/8.0/smeupdates-testing/SRPMS/perl-CGI-FormMagick-0.92-23.el5.sme.src.rpm 
 [chris@build-system SRPMS]$ CONFIG=smeserver-8-x86_64-base
 [chris@build-system SRPMS] $ mock -r $CONFIG --rebuild ~/smeupdates-testing/SRPMS/perl-CGI-FormMagick-0.92-23.el5.sme.src.rpm

see the built rpm in the relevant folder

 ls -1 /var/lib/mock/smeserver-8-x86_64/result

=====Perform a Build for sme8 32 bits from an SRPM=====
 [chris@build-system SRPMS]$ CONFIG=smeserver-8-i386-base
 [chris@build-system SRPMS] $ mock -r $CONFIG --rebuild ~/smeupdates-testing/SRPMS/perl-CGI-FormMagick-0.92-23.el5.sme.src.rpm

====Install and config CVS====
{{note box|SME Server uses CVS for maintaining code and packages. SME Server core and contribs code is stored in CVS, this is a system to maintain version history and change management for program code.
There are two repositories hosting code for SME Server:

    SME Server - holding the source code for the SME Server core
    SME Contribs - holdint the source code for contribs (add-ons) for SME Server 

Both repositories are organized by the package name under which they appear in the software installer in the server-manager (or yum).  please see [[CVS|CVS page]] for more specific informations}}

If this works, it is worth grabbing either CVS for one module, or the whole CVS tree using this : http://wiki.contribs.org/Simple_Package_Modification
* Setup CVS to use ssh by creating /etc/profile.d/smebuild.sh with the following content
 [chris@buildcos9 profile.d]$ sudo touch smebuild.sh
 [chris@buildcos9 profile.d]$ nano smebuild.sh
 [chris@buildcos9 profile.d]$ sudo nano smebuild.sh
 [chris@buildcos9 profile.d]$ cat smebuild.sh

 # Developer environment
 # This gets symlinked into /etc/profile.d
 
 export CVS_RSH=ssh # tell CVS to use ssh
 
 # DO NOT set CVSROOT
 
 alias rm='rm -i'
 alias cp='cp -i --preserve=timestamps'
 alias mv='mv -i'

You have to logout and login again to the console for changes to take effects.

* Check CVS account
You need top create an account on sourceforge, then get Shad to includ you in sme group + give access to Buildsys. Can be done later...Of course it is not an issue if you have not a cvs access like we will see below, you can retrieve package in mode anonymous.



====Sourceforge access====
This chapter is used only by developers who aim to be granted in write access to the source code on Sourceforge, you don't need it if you want to only make patch or modify code in your build environment. You can see [[Package_Modification]] for more informations.
* SME Server code is stored in the CVS on  http://SourceForge.net. To be able to work on your code in the SME Server CVS repository you need an account on SourceForge. With this account the development team can give you access to the CVS repository. More information can be found here:
 [http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Register%20a%20user%20account Registering a User Account]
 [http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/CVS CVS (Version Control for Source Code)]
 [http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/SSH%20keys SSH Key Generation and Usage]

* After you have created your SourceForge account you can ask the development team to give you developer access to smecontribs. Create a bug in the Bug Tracker as usual.

* Links to manage your SSH keys on SourceForge may be found on the [http://sourceforge.net/account/services SourceForge Account Services page]. 

* If local username is different to sf.net username edit ~/.ssh/config:
 
 Host  smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net
 User  sfusername ''(without @shell.sf.net)''
 Host  smecontribs.cvs.sourceforge.net
 User  sfusername ''(without @shell.sf.net)''

* Don't forget to set the proper privileges on the file
 
 chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config

====Using CVS - Getting source Code====
We need to create directory in /home/chris for example this how you can do

 exchange  - used to move files around with wget
 work - used for CVS jobs
 rpmbuild - used to build with Mock
 rpms - used for CVS tree download

 [chris@buildcos9 work]$ cd /home/chris
 [chris@buildcos9 work]$  mkdir {exchange,work,rpmbuild,rpms}
'''CVS is used for maintaining code and packages.'''<br />

We first need to download (with CVS this is called retrieving) the code for the package to be modified from the SME Server CVS repository at SourceForge (we can also retrieve the CVS for the smecontribs tree). 
Two cases with CVS:

To be able to work on your code in the SME Server CVS repository you need an account on SourceForge.  If you do not have an account at CVS, retrieving is performed as an anonymous user and changes cannot be saved. 

===== Case 1 - Registered Users =====
- To retrieve a package or a full tree as a registered user, cd into a work directory and issue following commands:
* for smeserver
 cvs -z3 -d:ext:smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver co -P packagename [individual package]
 cvs -z3 -d:ext:smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver co -P rpms [full tree]
* for smecontribs
 cvs -z3 -d:ext:smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smecontribs co -P packagename [individual package]
 cvs -z3 -d:ext:smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smecontribs co -P rpms [full tree]

===== Case 2 - Anonymous users =====
- To retrieve a package or a full tree as an anonymous user, cd into a work directory and issue following commands:
* for smeserver
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver checkout -P packagename [individual package]
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver co -P rpms [full tree]

* for smecontribs
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smecontribs checkout -P packagename [individual package]
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smecontribs co -P rpms [full tree]

Note: If at a later stage you obtain a valid account with CVS, you will need to edit ALL packages /CVS/Root in order to save your work in CVS. As an example, for package "packagename", CVS/Root will need to be edited to be exactly as shown below:
 [chris@buildcos9 work]$ cat packagename/CVS/Root
 :ext:smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver

ok - CVS/Root uses 'ext' which should be SSH access

==== Package modification ====
* Prepare work areas, make some directories:
 [chris@buildcos9 ~]$ pwd
 /home/chris

* [chris@buildcos9 ~]$ ls
 exchange  rpmbuild  rpms  test  work

* Import cvs in your workspace
 [chris@buildcos9 ~]$ cd work/
 [chris@buildcos9 ~]$ mkdir smeserver
 [chris@buildcos9 ~]$ cd smeserver
 [chris@buildcos9 work]$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver co -P packagename

or for smecontribs
 [chris@buildcos9 ~]$ cd work/
 [chris@buildcos9 ~]$ mkdir smecontribs
 [chris@buildcos9 ~]$ cd smecontribs
 [chris@buildcos9 work]$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smecontribs co -P packagename

* To refresh run the following from the rpms directory, or any lower directory with a CVS dir.
 [chris@buildcos9 ~] cd packagename/
 [chris@buildcos9 packagename]$ cvs update -dPA

* Change to work directory, in this example, we are working on sme9:
 [chris@buildcos9 packagename] cd sme9

* To prepare a tree
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$  cvs update -dPA [if not done previously]
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$  make clean  [ignore errors about tar.xz:file missing]     
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$  make prep

* Make a patch
Our patch will be a done with the 'diff' tool which compares the edited files against the original files.

* We need to to save a copy of the original files:
 cp -R packagename-1.2.3 packagename-1.2.3.old

* Switch to the tree and make required changes/modifications.

* Create a patch using a sensible name, eg "packagename-1.2.3-migrate_to_UNC_syntax.patch":
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$ diff -urN packagename-1.2.3.old packagename-1.2.3 > packagename-1.2.3-your_changes-description.patch

* Update the spec file
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$ nano packagename.spec

* Increase the release version at the beginning of the spec file by 1:
 %define release 4

* Add the patch to the existing patchlist section not forgetting to increase the patch number by 1:
 Patch3: packagename-1.2.3-my_changes_description

* Add patch version to the %setup section bot forgetting to increase number by 1:
 %patch3 -p1

* Update the changelog section, including the release version and bug number:
 %changelog
 * Mon Apr 01 2013 name <email> 1.2.3-4.sme
 - Summary of changes [SME: xxxx]

NOTE: The formatting of date information is critical, any errors will prevent successful commit to CVS.
In doubts, check previous entries in the changelog.

NOTE: There must be a bug reference for every change, it must be in the format [SME: xxxx] 

* Check changes against CVS
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$ cvs diff -u packagename.spec

* Build the test RPM
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$ pwd
 /home/chris/work/packagename/sme9

 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$ make mockbuild

{{Note box|msg=Mock will determine which configuration to use, but you can specify it if wanting to build for a different architecture for instance.
* Default
 make mockbuild
* IF 32 BITS SYSTEM:
 BUILDARCH=i386 make mockbuild
* IF 64 BITS SYSTEM:
 BUILDARCH=x86_64 make mockbuild}}

===== Basic Testing of Package: =====
Check for built packages:
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$ ls -la packagename-1_2_3-4_el6_sme

- Send new package (and patch if required) to workstation for testing/processing, as an example:
 [chris@buildcos9 packagename-1_2_3-4_el6_sme]$ scp -P 22 packagename-1_2_3-4_el6_sme.noarch.rpm chris\@192.168.0.1:/home/chris/WIP

- Move package to an ibay on test server

- Install package (yum localinstall or rpm -Uvh, for SME9 you can also use yum update packagename-1_2_3-4_el6_sme.noarch.rpm)

- Ensure nothing is broken.


======Notes on mock/cvs======
Normally you make builds from the working directory of the module you are working on, eg ~/rpms/e-smith-runit/sme9:
 # Build the given module within the chroot environment
 $ cd ~/rpms/e-smith-runit/sme9
 $ make mockbuild

 # If there is no sme9 directory do the following (to test ability to build only)
 $ cd ~rpms/module_name
 $ ln -s sme8 devel
 $ cd devel
 $ make mockbuild

It will determine if this is for SME Server 9 or 8, and the package to build, based on which directory that you are in. The results are put under that directory.

 ls -1 ~/rpms/e-smith-runit/sme9/e-smith-runit-2_4_0-2_el6_sme/
 build.log
 e-smith-runit-2.4.0-2.el6.sme.noarch.rpm
 e-smith-runit-2.4.0-2.el6.sme.src.rpm
 root.log
 state.log

Note if there are any perl directory requirments :

 $ rpm -qpl package_name.noarch.rpm |grep perl

===== Finalising in CVS and builsys =====
* Add the patch file to cvs:
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$ cvs add packagename-1.2.3-your_changes-description
 cvs add: scheduling file `packagename-1.2.3-your_changes-description' for addition
 cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently

NOTE: ignore this suggestion! Just proceed to next stage or you will end up in all kinds of problems....

* Build package on Shad's system:
 [chris@buildcos9 sme9]$ make commit tag build

Note: this can also be done in stages:
 make commit
 make tag
 make build

* Check for Build:
 http://buildsys.contribs.org/plague/

* Check for emails received from buildsys@contribs.org, you should get one from CVS and two from the Buildsystem.

* If (and only if) build has been successful, open relevant ticket in Bugzilla and notify of build:

Fixed in packagename:
 %changelog
 * Mon Apr 01 2013 name <email> 1.2.3-4.sme
 - Summary of changes [SME: xxxx]

You may also wish to provide some tips about verification.

== Patching an upstream package ==

initscripts is an example of a package where we have to patch the upstream package. Note that this is not the best approach, new method to be documented by Ian soon.

Original author [http://lists.contribs.org/pipermail/devinfo/2013-October/011977.html Ian Wells]

Here it is a 3-step process, Analysis, Integration, buildsys update. The majority of the work is in steps 1 & 2 where there needs to be an analysis of what has changed, and then an integration stage where you need to check that the patches still work, update CVS with new and modified files etc. Finally the new source needs updating into the buildsys before the official build will work.

 initscripts-8.45.44-3.el5.centos.src.rpm

Steps to update initscripts

===Step 1: Analysis, by anyone===

Check the contents of the SRPMs

 $ rpm -qlp initscripts-8.45.44-3.el5.centos.src.rpm
 0001-Fix-comments-in-sysctl.conf.ppc-862597.patch
 0002-create-tmp-.X11-unix-in-rc.sysinit.patch
 initscripts-8.45.44.tar.bz2
 initscripts-centos-branding.patch
 initscripts.spec

 $ rpm -qlp initscripts-8.45.42-2.1.el5.sme.src.rpm
 0002-create-tmp-.X11-unix-in-rc.sysinit.patch
 initscripts-8.45.38-smepatches.patch
 initscripts-8.45.42-kpartx.patch
 initscripts-8.45.42.tar.bz2
 initscripts-centos-branding.patch
 initscripts.spec


Check what is different (do a directory compare)


* Identical
 initscripts-centos-branding.patch (content is identical, although files are not)

* Modified
 initscripts.spec
 0002-create-tmp-.X11-unix-in-rc.sysinit.patch (patch is identical but line numbers changed)

* New
 initscripts-8.45.44.tar.bz2 (New source will need to be added to buildsys)
 0001-Fix-comments-in-sysctl.conf.ppc-862597.patch (will be added to CVS)

* Obsolete
 initscripts-8.45.42-kpartx.patch (can be removed from CVS)
 initscripts-8.45.42.tar.bz2

* Not in upstream SRPM as this is an SME Server patch to be applied each time
 initscripts-8.45.38-smepatches.patch


So we need the new initscripts-8.45.44.tar.bz2 & 0001-Fix-comments-in-sysctl.conf.ppc-862597.patch, and the updated 0002-create-tmp-.X11-unix-in-rc.sysinit.patch


=== Step 2: Integration : local mock build, can be done by a developer ===

* Remove the obsolete files

* Update the spec file.
 Version
 Release
 Patches
 Check the description, don't copy the 'Centos' wording to the SME package
 Copy the latest upstream Changelog
 Add/modify the changelog regarding SME patches

* Copy the new patch & source to the local directory

* Check that the patches apply cleanly (You don't want to see lines like Hunk #1 succeeded at 890 (offset 1 line).)
make prep

* Try to build it
 make mockbuild

{{Note box|msg=Mock will determine which configuration to use, but you can specify it if wanting to build for a different architecture for instance.
* IF 32 BITS SYSTEM:
 BUILDARCH=i386 make mockbuild
* IF 64 BITS SYSTEM:
 BUILDARCH=x86_64 make mockbuild}}
* Once it builds cleanly on local mock, commit the changes to CVS. Note that you cannot submit the build yet as it will fail due to the new source.
make commit

=== Step 3: Buildsys access and permissions needed ===

Then add new sources to buildsys ON BUILDSYS

If the above step has already been done then can update to latest in CVS, and retrieve the source tarball.

* get date for import
 $ date +%s
 1382918459

* fix name/version/release and date in the import.log (I don't have a good explanation for this)
 vi import.log*

* import the new source/tarball
 make new-sources FILES=*bz2

* Finally commit changes to CVS and build it.
 make commit tag build

=== Creating a new branch, eg SME 9 ===

== Package Build Steps ==
check out package
 cp -a sme8 sme9
 rm -rf sme9/CVS
 cd sme9
 make prep

 mv {sourcedir} {newsourcedir}
* example e-smith-base-5.2.0 to e-smith-base-5.4.0
 rm -f *.patch
* apply any fixes from spec to tree, only for SME Server packages
* move lib/perl5/site_perl to share/perl5/vendor_perl
 tar Jcvf {newsource}.tar.xz {newsourcedir}

 vi *.spec
* remove patches and fixes applied directly to tree
* bump version and reset release to 1
* add changelog saying rolling for sme9
 make mockbuild
* if this works then we can proceed
 rpm -qpl {package-version}_sme/{rpmname}.rpm
* check that files look similar to the sme8 package


=== These following steps need developer access ===
They are here for reference, and transparency. They will need to be run on SME Server's build server.
You do not need to do this part.  (If you have CVS access but not access to the build servers please don't run any of these commands)

 cd ..
 cvs add sme9
 cd sme9

 date +%s
* get date for import
 vi import.log*
* fix name/version/release and date
 cvs add .cvsignore *.spec Makefile import.log sources
* be sure to add any other needed packages
 make new-sources FILES=*xz

 make commit tag build

== Older notes ==
* You can find more example  [[Rpm_build_example_using_cvs/mock|of how using Mock]]
* To set up mock as used above see [http://wiki.contribs.org/Setting_up_RPM_Building_for_SME_Server Building using Mock]
* To checkout packages from CVS see [[Simple_Package_Modification|Simplest way to develop patches to submit]]

* If you have problems on setting up the environment, ask on IRC or Devinfo.

Notes:

* Using the provided .cfg files I have verified smeserver-8-x86_64-base.cfg & smeserver-9-x86_64-base.cfg and managed to build e-smith-runit for SME 9
* the chroot environments are cached, but rebuilding them and checking for updates can be pretty network intensive, so you might want to consider setting up a local repository to pull from. mrepo (available from rpmforge) is pretty good for that.
* there don't seem to be any hooks in mock to allow you to sign packages you've built, so if you do want signed packages you need to sign them afterwards via a rpm --resign $RPMS.
* If you get an error message 'create archive failed cpio: Bad magic' then try 'yum update' as this appears to be a known problem on COS6.


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