1. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Build Buddy: The Ximian Build System Dan Mills

2. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Package Management Package management provides a way to easily install, upgrade, remove, or otherwise manage software on a system Most popular packaging systems on Linux are RPM and Deb PKG

3. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Package Anatomy Metadata is contained in a file used by packaging tools (e.g., spec file) Metadata is often similar across packaging systems Actual file format varies Some tools want to help you build the software as well Delivered software Package Metadata file lists md5sums dependencies description etc

4. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Ximian Build System The Ximian Build System is a packaging solution Multi-platform (Solaris*, Linux, HP-UX) Multi-packsys (RPM, Deb, SD) CVS Integration Integration with Red Carpet Enterprise * Using RPM only

5. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Core XBS Functions Source and patch management: Retrieve pristine sources and out-of-band patches from CVS or the BB repo Package creation: Build and package a software module from a “ conf ” file Package verification: Check for common packaging mistakes bb_build engine: Performs operations on groups of modules, with dependency ordering

6. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Basic XBS Operation conf Sources Patches CVS BB Repo Packages bb_unpack bb_do bb_lint

7. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Basic XBS Operation 1. bb_unpack gets the sources of the module (from the repo, or from cvs), as well as all the patches. It unpacks the sources and applies the patches 2. bb_do creates the package system-specific files (e.g., "spec" file for rpm), builds, and makes the packages 3. bb_lint runs several automated checks on the packages to verify correctness and warn of possible mistakes

8. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Jails Jail images: A distribution in one file Jail unpacking Mount points Ssh setup Rcd setup Users Jail destruction Jail defaults: jail.conf and users.conf

9. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Short break Questions?

10. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Build Jobs These are all set automatically for you by Forge: Modules, to be built and installed in order Optional push to a RC channel Environment variables RCD settings, activations, and subscriptions Can be snapshots

11. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Build Nodes Authentication Jobs & Jails NFS Logging Node Job 1 redhat-80-i386 Job 2 suse-82-i586 Job 3 debian-woody-i386 nfs mount

12. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS XBS Overview II CVS BB Repo Sources Patches Master Webxml-rpc Build Node Build Node NFS RCE Server Build Node Build Request

13. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Example ximian-build.conf file.* dummy 1.0 0 1 dummy-1.0.tar.gz-1 http://ximian.com/ GPL [[configure]] ${MAKE} [[install]] ximian-dummy Dummy package This is a dummy package. It builds quickly. System Environment/Kernel

14. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS Targetset overrides … suse-90-i586 [[configure]] --special-option=yes ${MAKE}; ${MAKE} special ximian-dummy redhat-7 solaris …

15. © 2003 - 2004 Novell, Inc. XBS The End Questions?