So I did this little thing, and I'd like to know if other people find it
useful.
I just got a spiffy new laptop that does virt pretty well, and I'm running
F11 on it. Which gives a lot of neat virt stuff for free, that makes the
creation of a spacewalk nightly build very simple and convenient.
This is only for F11 users, and primarily for people who want to see/play
with the Postgres code as it moves forward.
Step 1: Go get thincrust, which is an appliance builder tool:
yum install thincrust
Step 2: Go get the kickstart file I built:
http://fedorapeople.org/~gdk/SPACEWALK/spacewalk.ks
Step 3: (Sadly still necessary) Build a local repo for Oracle, even if
you don't intend to run Oracle at all (which, if you're playing with the
Postgres code, you won't):
3a. Download the Oracle RPMs from Oracle
3b. Drop them into a directory
3c. From that directory, yum install createrepo
3d. Make sure the Oracle repo in the ks file matches
Once the Oracle deps are completely dead, this step can be ripped out.
Step 4: Build your appliance! It will pull the latest RPMs from the
nightly build:
appliance-creator -n spacewalk --config spacewalk.ks
Step 5: Go have a cup of coffee. Better yet, run Step 4 via cron in the
middle of the night.
Step 6: Run your new virtualized image!
virt-image spacewalk.xml
Ultimately, I'd like to be able to see a tinderbox running this process to
test things like deps issues, install time issues, and so forth.
Anyway, hope it's a useful idea. Comments welcome. Obviously, that
kickstart file can be much improved, since this only drops the RPMs into a
convenient image -- configuration still needs to be done manually, but
that's the next step. It's the kind of thing I'd love some help with.
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