Hi,
one of the problem for developer, as soon as they create full branches
of complete OS (for example a MeeGo:1.2:TV) in either a public or a
private OBS, is the need to get a login on the supporting OBS host to
run the createrepo tools to add packages groups definitions.
In general normal developers (like me) do not have such login bit It is
not uncommon that packages groups are included in reference kick start
files (.ks) making difficult the reuse of .ks on alternative repo.
Furthermore, the groups definitions in a given repo can change over the
time which means that, if you want to recreate the same image at a later
time, you might actually change your image definition whithout having
any control on these changes.
Context
=======
In the OBS Light team, our goal is to make our live (and may be yours by
side effect) easier. If you cannot rely at 100% on the public
repositories and plays with full OS image you might have similar issues.
So we happy to share with you our new tool : obsextractgroups.
obsextractgroups as it name tells, simply extract packages groups from a
published repo and provides them as files ready for used by mic2 as an
include file in a .ks via the macro %include.
Usage
=====
Usage is very simple here is a printout of the integrated help.
obsextractgroups --help
HELP
Function : Parse the group.xml file (even if it's a .gz file), in a
Meego's repos,
And save the lists of rpm for each group into files.
Usage: obsextractgroups [option] URL-to-published-repo
[target-dir-includes-files]
[option]:
-s silent mode
-d debug mode, copy the group.xml in the
target-dir-includes-files.
-v verbose mode.
URL-to-published-repo: must be a valid repository
target-dir-includes-files: is optional, by default the value
is the current directory
Example1: Remote
./obsextractgroups -v -d
http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/1.2.0/repos/oss/ia32/ ./result/
Example2: Remote (note: here the port is 82)
./obsextractgroups
http://128.124.118.140:82/home/ronan/MeeGo/1.2/
Example3: Local
./obsextractgroups -s ./repos/
version 1.0 LicenseGLPv2
Where to get it
============
You will find our small tools in our GIT tree.
https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/obs-light/trees/master/src/script
A bit more documentation
====================
Obviously on the MeeGo.com Wiki
http://wiki.meego.com/Obstag
Feedback (good as well as bad) is welcomed
--
Dominig ar Foll
MeeGo TV
Open Source Technology Centre
Intel SSG
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