Mer Delivery System

Mer provides the Mer Delivery System (MDS) to make it easy for vendors to track upstream Mer releases.

Overview

MDS is a small collection of tools that both supports distributing Mer binary releases and OBS build targets to vendors and accessing the local copy of the xrelease from a private vendor-managed OBS.

Operations

MDS tools

Installation

The MDS is installed in the root of the data area which will store the Mer releases (several Gb). This may be a dedicated VM.

Ensure the system has the following installed:

• 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

Get the release tools

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

Update

The tools are updated periodically - simply run

git remote update

to update and then

git checkout vXXX

to obtain the version required.

Mer release(s)

Setup

This step will pull (using rsync) all the git repositories for the Mer packages (nb: this is a huge download).

It will then build a list of the packages, create a set of mappings and prepare the OBS event stream.

Finally the OBS projects are cloned and extracted ready for the API service.

Note: You might need to set rsync proxy:

export RSYNC_PROXY=proxy.company.com:8080

cd release-tools; make

Update

An update simply requires:

cd release-tools; make update

This will...

Running this periodicall will rsync from the upstream project ensure that up-to-date changes are available.

Setup an API sercvice for Mer releases

MDS runs a simple http server that emulates the OBS api for a static release.

To start this 'fake obs server' (hence the original name for the packages):

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