Automatic build packages

luckylinux · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 48

Hello,

I am wondering whether there is some tutorial or documentation for this.
I am trying to setup an automatic build host in order to prepare and update all binary packages for a given set of profile, CHOST and USE flags.

I read Funtoo uses Metro and Gentoo uses Catalyst to automatically build stages.

I would like to know if there is something similar but for automatically building the whole system and then serve the binary packages via web server to client machines.

The closes I was able to find was Flameeyes' Tindebox but unfortunately that project was abandoned. And the "Tinderbox" articles on the wiki are not really helping.

Does anybody have a link to a specific tutorial ?
I assume setting up a cron job and then email the result would be not the proper way to do this ...

audiodef · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:25 pm Post subject:

I kind of doubt a single package exists to do *all* of that. As a catalyst user, I know you can use it to build binpackages. I run catalyst via cron weekly, so I know you can have catalyst build your binaries in a cron script, with the same script cp/mv'ing the binaries to an accessible location on your web server. You'll then need something else if you need an auto-deploy/install system. Maybe an update script distributed to the machines you maintain to fetch and install the binaries? Also, I think portage can be configured to use binaries, but as I don't do that I don't have advice about it.
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luckylinux · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 48

Thank you for your very quick reply audiodef.

I already have clients configured to fetch binary packages from the host.

I am putting in place also a system to keep in sync the content of /etc/portage and possibly also the world file.

However what I am still missing is how to automate the build process on the host / server.
Is there any guide on how to setup catalyst and would it be in any way different than just invoking a cron script of "emerge -uDn --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=1000 --autounmask-keep-masks=y" or something like that ?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:35 pm Post subject:

luckylinux,

What is "all binary packages"?

Every version of every ebuild in the tree available for your arch or just a subset of interest?
What are your build constraints?

I guess you don't want to build everything every time ... only if its changed?

Be aware that some packages may not be distributed in binary form too.
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luckylinux · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 48

Thank you for your question, NeddySeagoon.

Indeed my question was a bit ambiguous. I meant basically given a world file, to create binary packages whenever a new version is released, USE flags change, gcc version changes and so on.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:23 pm Post subject:

luckylinux,