This is not a tutorial. These are my running notes from getting Cassandra to run on Fedora 32. The debugging steps are interesting in their own right. I’ll provide a summary at the end for any sane enough not to read through the rest.
My Lab machines do not have direct access to the internet. This mirrors how my customers tend to run their environments. Instead, I run a single bastion host that can connect to the internet, and use that to perform all operations on my lab machines.
While it is great to be able to use the Install media to add packlages to PXE booted systems, after some time, the set of packages available is older than you want. For example, I hit a bug that required an update of Network Manager. So, I want to make a local yum repo from my RHEL 8 subscription. RHEL 8 makes this fairly easy.
Continue readingM<y local PXE setup only puts the minimal set of RPMS on a machine. If want to install additional, I need to get access to the rest of the Repo. Here is what I did:
Continue readingMany years ago, when I first started working at Red Hat, I worked up a package management domain model diagram. I’ve referred to it many times over the years, but have never posted or explained it in detail. Recently, discussions over image building software caused me to refer to it a few times. Here it is, with annotations below.
Continue readingMy laptop is my Demo machine. I need to be able to run the Red Hat cloud Suite of software on it. I want to install this software the same way a customer would. However, much of this software is server side software, and my machine was registered as a workstation. This means the Red Hat Content network won’t show me the server yum repositories. Here is how I converted my machine to be a server.
We are in the process of getting the docs straightened out for reviewing RDO packages. As we do, I want to record what I have working.
I have a Devstack setup. I’ve hacked the Keystone repo to add some cool feature. I want to test it out with an RDO deployment. How do I make my own RPM for the RDO system?
This is not a how to. This is more like a police log.
For Puppet on Fedora, we have Packstack and The Foreman. But if you are doing development, you need to know what is going on at the nuts and bolts level. I need to do some work on the Puppet modules for Keystone. This is a developers setup, running out of git repositories.
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If you ever want to build and RPM, you need to make sure that the things it requires are installed. These are listed in the SPEC file on lines that begin with BuildRequires. Installing these by hand is time consuming enough that it should be automated. Here’s a first hack in Python.
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import re
build_re = re.compile('BuildRequires:.*')
compare_re = re.compile('.*=.*')
def main():
if (len(sys.argv) > 1):
spec = open(sys.argv[1])
for line in spec:
if build_re.match(line):
for token in line.rsplit(" "):
if build_re.match(token):
continue
if compare_re.match(token):
break
token = token.rstrip(" ,\n\r")
if len(token) > 0:
print token
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
To use it, save in a file called buildreqs.py and run:
sudo yum install `./buidreqs.py ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/krb5.spec`
When a group forms, one of the things it does, over time, is develop values. Different development teams have different values, and people that come into the development process have to learn and adopt those values.  One value of the FreeIPA project that is very different from other recent projects of mine is this: The main code repository is only for “published” code. Work in progress should happen elsewhere. The main git repository should be easily readable.