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This can be done on SME 8 by installing only cvs as follows. | This can be done on SME 8 by installing only cvs as follows. | ||
| + | == Setting up your build server == | ||
| + | This How-to is primarily based on SME8, and that you have your development SME8 server up and running. This can be a dedicated machine or a virtual machine | ||
| − | + | ==== Create a new 'builder' user ==== | |
| + | We will create a new user account that we use for our building purposes. The new user account can be created, as usual, through the server-manager, In this How-To we will have named our new user account 'builder' | ||
| − | + | ==== Grant shell access ==== | |
| + | The 'builder' account needs to be able to login and have shell access. For this you will need to grant permissions. Type the following commands from the root account: | ||
| + | chsh -s /bin/bash builder | ||
| + | db accounts setprop builder Shell /bin/bash | ||
| + | After issuing the above commands, the user 'builder' should be able to login on the console. Please login as user 'builder' for the the rest of the instructions assume you are loged in as user 'builder' | ||
| − | + | ==== Install CVS ==== | |
| + | SME Server uses CVS for maintaining code and packages. By default, CVS is not installed on SME8 (not required for normal SME Server operation). To install CVS on SME8 issue the following command: | ||
| + | yum install cvs | ||
| − | + | ==== Create a development directory ==== | |
| + | The user 'builder needs a dedicated development directory. In this How-To we will use ~/home/smeserver. To create the directory ~/home/smeserver please issue the following command as user 'builder': | ||
| + | mkdir ~/home/smeserver | ||
| + | cd ~/home/smeserver | ||
| − | + | This is all what is required to setup your server to be able to start working on patches and packages | |
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| − | + | == Retrieve code == | |
| + | ==== Getting the right module ==== | ||
| + | In this How-To we want to work on the package 'e-smith-base'. We first need to download (with CVS this is called retrieving) the code for 'e-smith-base' from the SME Server CVS repository. For this issue the following command: | ||
| + | cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver checkout -P e-smith-base | ||
| + | Next to a selective retrieve as per above, you can also retrieve the whole CVS tree. | ||
| + | cd ~/home/smeserver | ||
| + | cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver co -P rpms | ||
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You can now retrieve one of the packages from SourceForge. In this case, we want to modify the e-smith-base package for SME8, so let's retrieve it from SourceForge: | You can now retrieve one of the packages from SourceForge. In this case, we want to modify the e-smith-base package for SME8, so let's retrieve it from SourceForge: | ||
Revision as of 10:59, 23 January 2013
The simplest package modification is for someone to access the code via anonymous CVS and produce a patch to put into Bugzilla. This can be done on SME 8 by installing only cvs as follows.
Setting up your build server
This How-to is primarily based on SME8, and that you have your development SME8 server up and running. This can be a dedicated machine or a virtual machine
Create a new 'builder' user
We will create a new user account that we use for our building purposes. The new user account can be created, as usual, through the server-manager, In this How-To we will have named our new user account 'builder'
Grant shell access
The 'builder' account needs to be able to login and have shell access. For this you will need to grant permissions. Type the following commands from the root account:
chsh -s /bin/bash builder db accounts setprop builder Shell /bin/bash
After issuing the above commands, the user 'builder' should be able to login on the console. Please login as user 'builder' for the the rest of the instructions assume you are loged in as user 'builder'
Install CVS
SME Server uses CVS for maintaining code and packages. By default, CVS is not installed on SME8 (not required for normal SME Server operation). To install CVS on SME8 issue the following command:
yum install cvs
Create a development directory
The user 'builder needs a dedicated development directory. In this How-To we will use ~/home/smeserver. To create the directory ~/home/smeserver please issue the following command as user 'builder':
mkdir ~/home/smeserver cd ~/home/smeserver
This is all what is required to setup your server to be able to start working on patches and packages
Retrieve code
Getting the right module
In this How-To we want to work on the package 'e-smith-base'. We first need to download (with CVS this is called retrieving) the code for 'e-smith-base' from the SME Server CVS repository. For this issue the following command:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver checkout -P e-smith-base
Next to a selective retrieve as per above, you can also retrieve the whole CVS tree.
cd ~/home/smeserver cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@smeserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smeserver co -P rpms
WIP Up to here [HF]
You can now retrieve one of the packages from SourceForge. In this case, we want to modify the e-smith-base package for SME8, so let's retrieve it from SourceForge:
- Change to work directory
cd ~/home/smeserver/rpms/e-smith-base/sme8
To prepare a tree
cvs update -dPA
make clean
make prep
- Save a copy of the original files
cp -R e-smith-base-5.2.0 e-smith-base-5.2.0.old
<Now make the changes needed to the files in e-smith-base-5.2.0>
- Create a patch
diff -urN smeserver-foo-2.0.0.old smeserver-yum-2.0.0 > smeserver-yum-2.0.0-importKeys.patch
- Now to make a build to test if it works:
- Update the spec file
#increase the release %define release 15 #add the patch Patch2: smeserver-foo-1.2-widget.patch #update the changelog, include the bug number * Fri Jan 11 2008 John Smith <smith@foo.net> 1.2-15 - fixed foo to create bar [SME 3470] #apply the patch in %setup %patch2 -p1
CHECK: that the changelog version really matches the RPM version.
CHECK: Is the spec file correct, look at the changes
cvs diff e-smith-base.spec
Have you updated the release? Is that new release in the changelog? Have you included the patch, Patch1: e-smith-proftpd-2.2.0-persistent_passwd.patch Is the changelog correct
* Tue Jan 22 2013 Ian Wells <esmith@wellsi.com> 2.2.0-4.sme - Remove previous change [SME: 7129]
There must be a bugzilla number in this format [SME: 7129]
Is the date really correct? Both day and date.
The version should follow after the email address
CHECK: what would be committed
cvs update
* M modified, will be committed * U file has been updated since you last checked it out * A added, will be added on commit * D deleted, will be deleted on commit * ? egregious file not part of CVS record for this dir
CHECK: has the patch files been added? cvs add e-smith-quota-2.0.0-badlyformattedie8.patch
CHECK: are the files UNIX or do they have DOS endings (bad)
Build the rpm locally to test, (note, this deletes the working tree!)
make local
Once the patch works, attach the patch to the bugzilla entry.
--- this simple package modification ends here ---
- If you have CVS access then
Once you are satisfied and want to submit the package to the build server commit your changes. (Please use descriptive comments so that other developers are aware of what is happening. Comments will appear on the subject line of the commit email that get send to the other developers.) cvs commit -m 'your descriptive commit message here' cvs commit -m <-- copy this then add changelog line
- If you have build access then
Build it (from either the sme7 or sme8 dir):
make tag make build
