Releasing Contribs

Releasing Contribs

Writing

The Developers Manual has information required to write a contrib for SME Server

Releasing

For consistency between contribs it's suggested that you follow these guidelines

1. Announce your new rpm on the forum, make the subject similar to below [ANNOUNCE] rpm name
2. Submit a bug to the bugtracker, for SME Contribs, asking for a new component to be added with your rpm name. Include links to download your rpm including your source RPM. Include a short description, perhaps the description from the spec file,

Your contrib should preferably be in the SME Dev repository, see below for how to obtain access.

	Note:
	If your contrib is not in SME Dev or has no category in the SME Server Bugtracker please do so.

SME Extras Repositories

The SME Extras repository will contain RPMs that have been through a review process, RPMs in the SME Extras repository will be able to be installed directly from the Software Installer panel in the server-manager. Currently the SME Extras repository does not hold any contribs, but this will change in the future.

	Note:
	The process for having your contrib included in SME Extras is currently being outlined and developed and therefore is far from complete.

Submitting a contrib to the SME Server repository

To get your package in the SME Extras repository it has to go through a review process. The first steps to get your contrib in the SME Extras repository are:

1. Submit your contrib for Package Review in the SME Server Extras category of the Bugtracker. Be sure to add the following information:
   • (a link to) the SPEC file
   • (a link to) the source RPM (SRPM)
2. SME Server code is stored in the CVS on SourceForge. 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:
   • B04: Registering a User Account
   • E04: CVS (Version Control for Source Code)
3. After you have created your SourceForge account you can ask the development team to give you developer access. Create a bug in the Bug Tracker as usual.
4. After the development team has added you to the list of developers you can create a SSH key which is necessary to get access to the SME Server CVS, more on this can be found here: F02: SSH Key Generation and Usage
5. After you have received developer access you will have to download and configure your CVS client to work with the SME Server CVS. More information can be found here: B01: Recommended User Software Configuration (en) . The SME Server development team has decided on using Mezzanine (see next item).
6. Install Mezzanine and read up on how to use it in the SME Server's Developers Guide - The SME Server development environment.
7. Subscribe yourself to the devinfo mailinglist. This is the place to discuss the developement of the server and contribs. If you have other questions, not regarding development please use the forums.

Having your contrib reviewed

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The review process has not been outlined.

Uploading contrib(s) to contribs.org

If you have created a contrib and wish to share with everyone then you can upload to your mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs directory. To do so you can use ssh, rysnc, sftp or scp to upload to your contrib directory.

Before you start using your favorite transfer method you may wish to set up your ssh keys to authenticate against shell.contribs.org or simply ignore and you would be requested to type your password that was originally set up with your contrib area.

If you do wish to use ssh authenticated keys, then follow the section SSH Keys

Additional links:

public key auth

Using SSH

You can log in using a shell account with limited access, to do this you can either use your password or set up ssh (see note about permissions of ssh keys) keys:

ssh username@shell.contribs.org

You will then see either ssh authenticated key login:

[localuser@localhost ~]$ ssh username@shell.contribs.org
Enter passphrase for key '/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa': 
Last login: Tue Oct 23 15:09:50 2007 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
[username@shell ~]$

or if using a shell password:

[localuser@localhost ~]$ ssh username@shell.contribs.org
username@shell.contribs.org's password:
Last login: Tue Oct 23 15:09:50 2007 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
[username@shell ~]$

There is limited shell access as mentioned and the available commands are:

cat bash cat chgrp chmod chown clear cp dircolors echo egrep find grep hostname id less ln ls mkdir
more mv nano newgrp passwd rm rmdir rsync scp sftp sed sort touch uniq xargs

You can also change your password within your shell account by typing:

passwd

Now upload your contribs and share with everyone ;)

Using RSYNC

Make sure you have a working copy of your contrib directory, for example to use rsync we will grab a copy by typing...

rsync -avP username@shell.contribs.org:~username/ /tmp/test/

Now make your /tmp/test directory looks like what you wish to see on your mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs directory, if you wish to remove a contrib from your directory you can do so by typing the following...

rsync -avP --delete /tmp/test/ username@shell.contribs.org:~username/

And that's it now wait for mirrors to sync and have a beer.

Using SFTP

Log in using...

sftp username@shell.contribs.org

Now you will be at the...

sftp>

Now you can create your directory ready for uploading contribs...

sftp> mkdir smecontribs
sftp>

Then upload your local copy of your new completed contrib to your contrib directory by typing...

sftp> cd smecontribs
sftp>

Show we are in the right directory where we want the contrib to show...

sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /home/byte/smecontribs
sftp>

Make sure we have our local server directory set correctly by typing...

sftp> lls
anaconda-ks.cfg  Desktop  install.log  install.log.syslog
sftp>

Above show's we are not so to move in to our local working directory type...

sftp> lcd /tmp/sftptest
sftp> lls
smeserver-contrib-1.rpm  smeserver-contrib.rpm
sftp>

We are ready to upload our 2 new contribs by typing...

sftp> put smeserver-*
Uploading smeserver-contrib-1.rpm to /home/username/smecontribs/smeserver-contrib-1.rpm
smeserver-contrib-1.rpm                       100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00
Uploading smeserver-contrib.rpm to /home/username/smecontribs/smeserver-contrib.rpm
smeserver-contrib.rpm                         100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00
sftp>

And thats it wait for mirrors to sync and sit back/relax.

Using SCP

You can send files by using scp:

[local@localhost contribs]$ scp  username@shell.contribs.org:~username/smeservercontribs/RPMS
Enter passphrase for key '/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa':
smeserver-contrib                                100%  103     0.1KB/s   00:00
[local@localhost contribs]$

Sit back and wait for mirrors to sync.

	Note:
	The scp command only copies files or directories, it does not easily allow you to list your files on the shell.contribs.org host, or delete, copy or rename them. To do any of these interactively, you need to login via ssh.