Setting up RPM Building for SME Server on rocky 8

Updated - July 2023 - Added latest smeserver-10-x86_64-base.cfg contents and git details

Login as brianr (or whatever)

sudo dnf install epel-release
sudo dnf install mock
sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -G mock brianr
sudo dnf install glances
sudo yum install make rpm-build rpm-sig
sudo dnf install git-lfs
sudo dnf install xz

(Missing python-ctypes??)

cd /etc/mock/
sudo rm site-defaults.cfg 
sudo dnf install wget
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/site-defaults.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-8-i386-base.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-8-i386-iso.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-8-x86_64-base.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-8-x86_64-iso.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-9-i386-base.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-9-i386-iso.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-9-x86_64-base.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-9-x86_64-iso.cfg
sudo wget http://mirror.contribs.org/contribs/dani/mock/smeserver-10-x86_64-base.cfg
sudo chown root:mock /etc/mock/*

Note that the /etc/mock/smeserver-10-x86_64-base.cfg file is incomplete (and actually the only one we really want!). Ideally the full one will be uploaded in time. See later, I copied from my Centos 7 build system.

Here it is:

config_opts['package_manager'] = 'yum'
config_opts['use_nspawn'] = False

# see bugs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2076847 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2076847
config_opts['plugin_conf']["copy_enable"] = True
config_opts['plugin_conf']['copy_opts']= {
 'files': [  ("/etc/mock/perl.prov", "/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/perl.prov"),
           ("/etc/mock/perl.prov", "/usr/lib/rpm/perl.prov"),
 ],
}

config_opts['root'] = 'smeserver-10-x86_64'
config_opts['target_arch'] = 'x86_64'
config_opts['dist'] = '.el7.sme'
config_opts['chroot_setup_cmd'] = ' install @buildsys-build  @buildsys scl-utils-build python27-build '
 
config_opts['plugin_conf']['ccache_opts']['dir'] = "%(cache_topdir)s/ccache/x86_64/"
 
config_opts['macros']['%distribution'] = "SME Server v10"
config_opts['macros']['%packager'] = "Koozali.org <http://www.koozali.org>"
config_opts['macros']['%vendor'] = "Koozali.org <http://www.koozali.org>"
config_opts['macros']['%dist'] = ".el7.sme"
 
config_opts['yum.conf'] = """
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=4
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
reposdir=/dev/null
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=0
assumeyes=1
syslog_ident=mock
syslog_device=
 
[os]
name=os
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/7/os/x86_64
exclude=buildsys-macros
 
[updates]
name=updates
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/7/updates/x86_64
exclude=buildsys-macros
 
[smeos]
name=os
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/10/smeos/x86_64
exclude=buildsys-macros

[smeupdates]
name=os
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/10/smeupdates/x86_64
exclude=buildsys-macros

[fastrack]
name=fastrack
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/7/fastrack/x86_64
 
# centos cr
[opt1]
name=opt1
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/7/opt1/x86_64
 
# centos extra
[opt2]
name=opt2
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/7/opt2/x86_64

# Not used
[opt3]
name=opt3
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/7/opt3/x86_64

[epel]
name=epel
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64
#baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/7/epel/x86_64
includepkgs=ccache mhash* perl-Taint-Util libdb4 libdb4-devel php-channel-horde php-horde-* perl-Class-Method-Modifiers perl-Class-XSAccessor perl-Devel-GlobalDestruction perl-Sub-Name perl-indirect perl-B-Hooks-OP-Check perl-ExtUtils-Depends perl-Lexical-SealRequireHints perl-Params-Classify perl-Dist-CheckConflicts perl-Math-Int64 perl-Sort-Naturally perl-Sub-Exporter* perl-Bytes-Random-Secure perl-Crypt-Random-TESHA2 perl-Crypt-Random-Seed perl-Math-Random-ISAAC kmodtool libmaxminddb-devel libmaxminddb perl-Module-Build-Tiny perl-Mojolicious perl-Net-CIDR-Lite mod_perl mod_perl-devel perl-Apache-Test pyzor perl-Linux-Pid perl-BSD-Resource perl-dev  perl-Data-Dumper perl-Razor-Agent perl-generators* perl-Net-Patricia meson libidn2* ninja-build python36-Cython epel-rpm-macros lua-srpm-macros libnetfilter_log* courier-unicode* perl-Path-Class perl-String-Random perl-Test-Class perl-Test-Mojo perl-MRO-Compat perl-Class-Accessor libebml* libmatroska* pugixml* spdlog* multilib-rpm-config cmake3* libuv libzstd rhash google-benchmark* libnet10-* perl-Crypt-GPG gnupg1 perl-Lingua-Stem-Snowball* perl-Lingua-StopWords perl-rpm-build-perl* fmt* perl-Class-Virtual perl-Carp-Assert pyPdf python2-apipkg python2-bottle python2-dateutil python2-docutils python-gevent python2-simplejson python-sqlite3dbm python2-future python2-attrs python2-packaging python2-certifi perl-Email-MIME perl-Email-Simple perl-Net-IP perl-Net-SMTPS perl-Throwable perl-Sub-Override perl-Moose perl-Email-Abstract perl-Eval-Closure perl-Email-Date-Format perl-Devel-PartialDump perl-namespace-clean perl-B-Hooks-EndOfScope perl-Variable-Magic latexmk python3-sphinx* python36-sphinx* python36-pygments python36-jinja2 python36-docutils python36-markupsafe clamav* perl-TAP-Harness-Env rust ghc-* rust-* llvm13-libs pandoc golang* perl-Net-LibIDN* perl-Net-Patricia re2c perl-Data-Validate-IP perl-Clone-PP perl-ExtUtils-Manifest*

[openfusion]
name=openfusion
baseurl=http://repo.openfusion.net/centos7-x86_64
includepkgs=perl-Lingua* perl-Snowball* perl-Text-German perl-MooX* perl-Scalar-List-Utils perl-Throwable perl-Moose perl-Try-Tiny perl-Devel-StackTrace perl-Devel-OverloadInfo perl-Sub-Name perl-Module-Runtime-Conflicts perl-Test-File-ShareDir perl-Test-Exception perl-Test-Output perl-Net-IDN-Encode perl-Path-Tiny perl-Class-Tiny perl-Unicode-UTF8 perl-Net-Server perl-Email-Address-XS perl-MaxMind-* perl-Geo-IP perl-IP-Country-DB_File perl-IP-Country perl-Math-Int128 perl-Data-IEEE754 perl-namespace-autoclean perl-Net-Works perl-List-AllUtils perl-Data-Printer perl-IP-Country perl-Sub-Identify perl-Test-Warnings perl-Hash-FieldHash perl-Data-Dumper-Concise perl-Encode-Detect

[rpmfusion]
name=rpmfusion
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/7/x86_64
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-el-updates-released-7&arch=$basearch
#baseurl=http://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz/linux/rpmfusion/free/el/updates/7/x86_64/
includepkgs=ffmpeg* libva* x264-libs xvidcore librtmp buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-current-* buildsys-build-rpmfusion-* libmpeg2* mpeg2dec 

[sclo-sclo]
name=sclo-sclo
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/x86_64/sclo
includepkgs=python27*

[sclo-rh]
name=sclo-rh
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/x86_64/rh
includepkgs=python27* python33* rh-mongodb26* rh-mongodb32* rh-mongodb34* nodejs010* rh-nodejs6* devtoolset-* devtoolset-9*

[buildsys-core]
name=buildsys-core
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/10/smeserver-core/x86_64
includepkgs=bglibs bglibs-devel buildsys-macros cvm* dietlibc* e-smith-devtools perl-Test-Inline perl-IO-Socket-IP perl-Geography-Countries perl-Object-Persistence perl-bareword-filehandles perl-multidimensional perl-strictures perl-Module-Runtime perl-Role-Tiny perl-Sub-Quote perl-Bytes-Random-Secure perl-Net-Ident perl-generators DCC python3-lxml libnetfilter_acct* qmail perl-Net-IMAP-Simple  perl-Regexp-Common perl-Email-Sender perl-Moo perl-Mail-DMARC clamav*

[buildsys-contribs]
name=buildsys-contribs
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/10/smeserver-contribs/x86_64
includepkgs=libevent2* perl-Ezmlm perl-IPC-Run libevhtp* libsearpc* ccnet* libccnet* libzdb* libccnet* evhtp* sqlite* ocaml camlp5 python27-python-versiontools libarchive* libupnp-* duktape-* fmt-* spdlog-* ezmlm* c-icap*

[groups]
name=groups
baseurl=http://buildsys.koozali.org/build/10/smeserver-groups/x86_64
"""

Then:

#!/bin/sh
mkdir ~/rpmbuild
for i in BUILD BUILDROOT RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS
do
 mkdir ~/rpmbuild/$i
done

Install / Access CVS

sudo dnf install cvs
sudo nano /etc/profile.d/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'

Create the ssh details for the build server:

mkdir -p ~/.ssh
nano ~/.ssh/config

Host  shell.koozali.org
User  brianr
Port  222
IdentityFile /home/brianr/.ssh/smeserver-buildsys
ForwardAgent yes

Make Sure your public and private keys are syncronised onto the build server (I just copied the key files to the rocky server from my Centos 7 server).

Then pull in the complete Contribs tree

cvs -z3 -d:ext:shell.koozali.org:/cvs/smeserver co -P rpms

Disable selinux by editing config replace "enforcing" by "disabled"

sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/selinux

and reboot.

GIT

The git utilities currently developed live in the smedev/smeserver-gitutils repo.

Pull it over as follows:

git clone  https://src.koozali.org/smedev/smeserver-gitutils.git

Then copy the shell scripts to ~/bin or wherever.

mkdir ~/bin
cp smeserver-gitutils/git-*.sh  ~/bin/.
mkdir ~/.smegit
cp smeserver-gitutils/conf ~/.smegit/config

Then edit the ~/.smegit/conf for your own setup.

The gitutils use the change-log and BogusDataBot.sh scripts which are normally installed from smeserver-mock. Until an EL8 rpm is built, then you need to copy these to ~/bin or /usr/bin from your EL7 or SMEServer system.

They also use the json utilities "jq", and "git-lfs" plugin and "lua" (needed for change-log) so you need:

sudo dnf install jq
sudo dnf install lua
sudo dnf install git-lfs

Git is quite sensitive to the local time, so make sure your timezone is correct:

timedatectl 
timedatectl list_timezones | grep London
timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London

If you want to save your credentials to the gitea server, then do this:

git config --global credential.helper store

Then next time you need to access the repo to push and it asks for your credentials it will save them. This saves them apparently in plain to a restricted file called ".git-credentials" somewhere, however I've not found it yet!

Submitting jobs to the build system

Need also to copy over from current build system ~/.plague-client.cfg .rpmmacros .cvspass (although this one is empty?)

make mockbuild runs ok.

Not yet tried submitting build to buildsys - need to find plague-client to download - found Centos 7

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/7.9.2009/infra/x86_64/infra-common/Packages/p/plague-client-0.4.5.8-19.el7.4.noarch.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/7.9.2009/infra/x86_64/infra-common/Packages/p/plague-common-0.4.5.8-19.el7.4.noarch.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/vault.centos.org/7.6.1810/cloud/x86_64/openstack-stein/python2-pyOpenSSL-19.0.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/7.9.2009/cloud/x86_64/openstack-stein/Packages/p/python2-cryptography-2.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Need python2

 sudo dnf install python2

Unfortunately it seems that the plague client needs things that Rocky is unable to provide (or at least I can't sort out!!). The perceived wisdom is to wait for the move from CVS to git which is expected for SME11.