Installation¶
Installing prerequisites:
$ sudo yum install git createrepo python-virtualenv mock gcc redhat-rpm-config rpmdevtools httpd \
libffi-devel openssl-devel
Add the user you intend to run as to the mock group:
$ sudo usermod -a -G mock $USER
$ newgrp mock
$ newgrp $USER
If you want to serve the built packages and the status reports:
$ sudo systemctl start httpd
Install DLRN:
$ pip install dlrn
Or, if you have virtualenv installed:
$ virtualenv dlrn-venv
$ source dlrn-venv/bin/activate
$ pip install dlrn
The httpd module is not strictly required, DLRN does not use it. However, it will output
it’s results in a way that is suitable for a web-server to serve. This means you can easily set up
a web-server to serve the finished .rpm
and .log
files.
Configuration¶
Configuration is done in an INI-file. An example file called projects.ini
is included.
The configuration file looks like this:
[DEFAULT]
datadir=./data
scriptsdir=./scripts
baseurl=http://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos7/
distro=rpm-master
source=master
target=centos
smtpserver=
reponame=delorean
templatedir=./dlrn/templates
maxretries=3
pkginfo_driver=dlrn.drivers.rdoinfo.RdoInfoDriver
tags=
rsyncdest=
rsyncport=22
workers=1
gerrit_topic=rdo-FTBFS
database_connection=sqlite:///commits.sqlite
fallback_to_master=1
coprid=account/repo
datadir
is the directory where the packages and repositories will be created.scriptsdir
is the directory where scripts utilized during the build and test process are located.baseurl
is the URL to the data-directory, as hosted by your web-server. Unless you are installing DLRN for local use only, this must be a publicly accessible URL.distro
is the branch to use for building the packages.source
is the branch to use from the upstream repository.target
is the distribution to use for building the packages (centos
orfedora
).smtpserver
is the address of the mail server for sending out notification emails. If this is empty no emails will be sent out. If you are running DLRN locally, then do not set an smtpserver.reponame
name of the directory that contains the generated repository.templatedir
path to the directory that contains the report templates and stylesheets.maxretries
is the maximum number of retries on known errors before marking the build as failed. If a build fails, DLRN will check the log files for known, transient errors such as network issues. If the build fails for that reason more than maxretries times, it will be marked as failed.pkginfo_driver
is the driver to use for generating the list of packages that will be built.gerrit
if set to anything, instructs dlrn to create a gerrit review when a build fails. See next section for details on how to configure gerrit to work.- If
gerrit
is set, thengerrit_topic
will define the Gerrit topic to use when a review is opened. tags
is used to filter information received to decide what packages are built. Should be set to a release name (e.g. mitaka) to instruct the builder to only show packages with that release tag.rsyncdest
if set, specifies a destination path where the hashed repository directories created by DLRN will be synchronized usingrsync
, after each commit build. An example would beroot@backupserver.example.com:/backupdir
. Make sure the user running DLRN has access to the destination server using passswordless SSH.rsyncport
is the SSH port to be used when synchronizing the hashed repository. Ifrsyncdest
is not defined, this option will be ignored.workers
is the number of parallel build processes to launch. When using multiple workers, the mock build part will be handled by a pool of processes, while the repo creation and synchronization will still be sequential.- The
database_connection
string defines a database connection string. By default, a local SQLite3 database is used, but it is also possible to set up an external database. fallback_to_master
defines the fallback behavior when cloning Git repositories.- With the default value of 1, DLRN will fall back to the
master
branch for source repositories if the configured branch cannot be found, andrpm-master
for distgit repositories. - If the value is 0, there will be no fallback, so if the configured branch does not exist an error message will be displayed, and the project will be ignored when deciding which packages need to be built.
- With the default value of 1, DLRN will fall back to the
pkginfo_driver
defines the driver to be used to manage the distgit repositories. There are currently two drivers:dlrn.drivers.rdoinfo.RdoInfoDriver
, which uses information provided by rdoinfo to determine the distgit repo location and information.dlrn.drivers.gitrepo.GitRepoDriver
, which uses a single Git repository with per-distgit directories, following the same schema used by the RPM Packaging for OpenStack project. This driver requires setting some optional configuration options in the[gitrepo_driver]
section
coprid
defines the Fedora Copr id to use to compile the packages instead of using mock. Thecopr-cli
package needs to be installed. Configure only one target architecture per COPR builder else it would confuse DLRN. Details on Fedora Copr at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
The optional [gitrepo_driver]
section has the following configuration
options:
[gitrepo_driver]
repo=http://github.com/openstack/rpm-packaging
directory=/openstack
skip=openstack-macros,keystoneauth1
use_version_from_spec=0
repo
is the single Git repository where all distgits are located.directory
is a directory inside the repo. DLRN will expect each directory inside it to include the spec file for a single project, using a Jinja2 template like in the RPM Packaging for OpenStack project.skip
is a comma-separated list of directories to skip fromdirectory
when creating the list of packages to build. This can be of use when the Git repo contains one or more directories without a spec file in it, or the package should not be built for any other reason.use_version_from_spec
If set to 1 (or true), the driver will parse the template spec file and set the source branch to the Version: tag in the spec.
Configuring for gerrit¶
You first need git-review
installed. You can use a package or install
it using pip.
Then the username for the user creating the gerrit reviews when a build will fail needs to be configured like this:
$ git config --global --add gitreview.username "myaccount"
and authorized to connect to gerrit without password.
Configuring your httpd¶
The output generated by DLRN is a file structure suitable for serving with a web-server. You can either add a section in the server configuration where you map a URL to the data directories, or just make a symbolic link:
$ cd /var/www/html
$ sudo ln -s <datadir>/repos .
Database support¶
DLRN supports different database engines through SQLAlchemy. SQLite3 and MariaDB have
been tested so far. You can set the database_connection
parameter in projects.ini
with the required string, using `the SQLAlchemy syntax
For MariaDB, use a mysql+pymysql driver, with the following string:
database_connection=mysql+pymysql://user:password@serverIP/dlrn
That requires you to pre-create the ``dlrn``database.
If your MariaDB database is placed on a publicly accessible server, you will want to secure it as a first step:
$ sudo mysql_secure_installation
You can use the following commands to create the database and grant the required permissions:
use mysql
create database dlrn;
grant all on dlrn.* to 'user'@'%' identified by 'password';
flush privileges;
You may also want to enable TLS support in your connections. In this case, follow the steps detailed in the `MariaDB documentation
<https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/secure-connections-overview/>`_ to enable TLS
support on your server. Generate the client key and certificates, and then set up your database connection string as follows:
database_connection=mysql+pymysql://user:password@serverIP/dlrn?ssl_cert=/dir/client-cert.pem&ssl_key=/dir/client-key.pem
You can also force the MySQL user to connect using TLS if you create it as follows:
use mysql
create database dlrn;
grant all on dlrn.* to 'user'@'%' identified by 'password' REQUIRE SSL;
flush privileges;
Database migration¶
During DLRN upgrades, you may need to upgrade the database schemas,
in order to keep your old history.
To migrate database to the latest revision, you need the alembic command-line
and to run the alembic upgrade head
command.
$ sudo yum install -y python-alembic
$ alembic upgrade head
If the database doesn’t exist, alembic upgrade head
will create it from scratch.
If you are using a MariaDB database, the initial schema will not be valid. You should start by running DLRN a first time, so it creates the basic schema, then run the following command to stamp the database to the first version of the schema that supported MariaDB:
$ alembic stamp head
After that initial command, you will be able to run future migrations.