[ATrpms-devel] Info on build environment

[Scott Harris]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:31:52AM -0700, Scott Harris wrote:
>> Howdy all,
>> 	I was curious if you were willing to share how
>> you've automated building multiple releases for multiple
>> OSes?  Where I work we are trying to support releases for
>> all derivations of RedHat from 3 through 5 Update 3.
> 
> That's more an atrpms-devel type question, but anyway: Like any other

Oops, sorry, absolutely right.

> buildsystem out there I use chroots to capture environments for the
> various supported distribution. These chroots were once managed by
> apt, but since apt has broken on Fedora 10/11 sometimes I switched to
> a combination of yum and smart (unfortunately yum alone does not have
> a feature like yum install foo-the.version.I.want).
> 
> There are several tools for working with chroots, the most prominent
> ones are mock and koji as a high level supervisor, but I still use a
> couple of simple shell scripts.
> 
>> Right now if we move to a new version of RedHat that is
>> substantially different, say from RH3 to RH5, we manually
>> recompile all the dependent RPMs we need with rpmbuild.
>> This takes one person quite a bit of time.  What's the b
>> best approach to automation?
> 
> I use a for loop over all projects. I just need to add a distribution
> and then let the servers work out on it. It takes quite some time to
> rebuild everything, but there is no human supervision needed (or very
> little, only when something breaks from distro X to X+1).

Thanks for all this info, Axel.  We're investigating mock + koji as
a solution for our needs.

Thanks again,

Scott