Mer Delivery System

To set up your own Mer build:

1. Install:

• git
• python
• make
• smmap: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/smmap
• async: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/async
• gitdb: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gitdb
• gitpython homepage: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GitPython/0.3.2.RC1
• gitpython install guide: http://packages.python.org/GitPython/0.3.2/intro.html#installing-gitpython
• cpio

2. Get the release tools

git clone http://review.merproject.org/p/mer/release-tools

3. Build the tools

Note: You might need to set rsync proxy:
export RSYNC_PROXY=proxy.company.com:8080

This will rsync all the package git repos and clone Core git and check it out and make a mappings cache of git repos (will md5sum all sources)

cd release-tools; make

4. Pull down the latest Mer release binaries

make update    

5. Start the fakeobs server

python tools/fakeobs.py 8001 &

6. Setup OBS locally on your build environment of choice:

• As VMWare image
  • download -vmx- image from here
  • load into VMWare Player
  • add Network Adapter (Bridged mode!)
  • add extra min 12GB HDD and mount it under /var/cache
  • continue to setup here, stop before step 5
• On an existing openSUSE installation (OBS Setup)
• Building only on VMs: Mer OBS VM Setup Guide.

7. Add a remote link for your FakeOBS's server, port 8001, /public, http, not-https (see how)

8. Follow the rest of OBS Install until the end

9. Once your project is set-up, OBS should start building it automatically (use Status Monitor to track the progress)

Show up in #mer and poke Stskeeps if there's any questions