I think it'd be awesome if we could contact Xavier and do an article
about this for news.o.o... I'm pretty sure we already have half the info
we need for that in his mail to -builservice below :D
On 2011-06-23 JAFFREZIC Xavier xavier.jaffre...@renault.com wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm working at RENAULT Automotive and we are involved in the GenIVI
alliance. For testing purpose, we need an OBS private instance for
building our software stack and keep all of application graphics
confidential.
So I have started to install and configure a OBS instance using the
opensuse wiki :
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_private_instance
(written by Dominig Ar Foll as I understood)
This was very useful for preparing the hardware, configuring the disk,
downloading all the software images.
With all these in formations, I was able to start quite quickly the OBS
instance.
I think, the wiki should contain a section concerning the quick test
installation using only one hard drive (containing every things) . This
solution wouldn't be safe at all for data's, but this would reduce the
disk preparation to copying the appliance to it .
But, the wiki is very complete to set an production OBS instance (with
lots of optimizations) . But to set up this kind of Instance, you need
an agreement from the management because you will need to buy a few
equipment and the agreement could be easily obtained from a Demo based
on an initial quick and dirty OBS installation.
When the appliance started, it clearly does nothing and problems have
started . (And there is no error message anywhere . That's driving
crazy)
First what was missing in the wiki was the proxy configuration (Dominig,
with it great experience and with lot of patience, help me a lot to set
up this proxy configuration). So, I have added a small section in the
wiki corresponding to this.
While the proxy is configured . the OBS still does nothing (Aaaargh !)
Here is comes the tricky part . All tutorial on the net are based on
copying the prj prjconf from another OBS instance, for which a login is
required . I didn't understand anything to all of these . But it seems
also that OBS has evolved a lot and all of these exotic manipulation
aren't any more required for quickstarting a linked OBS . (but they
maybe are for a standalone OBS instance) . Well, as a complementary
information, I have used the 2.2.80 version on the OBS Appliance.
Dominig show me the alternative way and almost everything can be done
using only the WebUI .. Yes in that case, your OBS will be linked to an
higher OBS instance, but this is sufficient for beginning ..
So, the only thing that couldn't be done by the WebUI is to setup the
OSC configuration file . (in fact, I don't now if it is mandatory
regarding the OBS configuration but it's a very easy way to check that
the OBS is properly configured).
The tricks that Dominig has proposed is modify the .ossrc file to make
the apiurl line pointing to the OBS that your are trying to configure.
In that way, this insures that retrieval information mechanism will be
done by the OBS itself. So it will also insure that the proxy settings
are correct (remembering some headache!!!) .
After that, thing becomes quite easy. I have used the OBS setup on the
WebUI and select one of the 2 preconfigured choices.
After switching back to the osc command line on the OBS itself, I have
issued some osc ls MeeGo.com (as MeeGo.com is predefined settings)
command which returns nothing . But osc ls MeeGo. Com: x (where x is
not a project name) and I get the complete list of all available project
on the linked instance : That means, my obs is now alive and working
!!!
The final point was to define a build target . It take some times to
understand that would be done by configuring properly the home projet of
the Admin . (Now, I know that could be done on any project .)
Dominig explain me what I need to add with raw config editor in the
home:Admin project. He says, put the following line inside the
Admin:project
repository name=MeeGo.com
path repository=standard project= MeeGo.com:MeeGo:1.2.0:oss/
archi586/arch
/repository
I understand a bit later the exact meaning of each line .
Finally I upload a source package (from meego source) and it build ...
bingo !
So as a conclusion, setting up a linked Private instance of an OBS is
not complicated . But, I didn't find this on the net . And clearly the
name OBS didn't help for this. Working in automotive world, we are
sometimes searching for information about the CAN (Controler Area
Network) technology which is the embedded automotive network . You can
easily imagine that CAN isn't a relevant keyword with Google. OBS seems
to have nearly at the same efficiency!!!
So I think, I will add this configuration method on the opensuse wiki
.
My chance was, that Dominig is a very nice guy and I met him at a
previous GenIVI workshop .
Without his
