Buildbot Package Builder

Deprecation notice

I no longer use this project because I now use Github actions for automatization.

This project aims to assemble a binary (and source) package builder based on Buildbot. For now it only builds debian packages compatible with Debian and its derivatives, but it will compile Fedora and Arch packages in the future.

Follow the instructions to configure buildbot-packagebuilder for local packaging.

Steps for using Buildbot Package Builder

Install dependencies. Make sure all software is installed and no errors are thrown during instalation.
```
 sudo aptitude install git virtualenv supervisor python2.7-dev apt-cacher reprepro pbuilder
```
_{Another form of installing Virtualenv is through pip. Install the python-pip package and then execute sudo pip install virtualenv.}
Create a new user for buildbot.
```
 sudo adduser buildbot
```

Configure sudo for the buildbot user.

 sudo cat << EOF > /etc/sudoers.d/buildbot
 buildbot ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: ALL
 EOF

Create a virtualenv with proper dependencies.

 su buildbot
 mkdir -p "${HOME}/buildbot"
 cd "${HOME}/buildbot"
 virtualenv --python=python2.7 virtualenv
 virtualenv/bin/pip install buildbot buildbot-slave

Create checkout dir.

 sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/pbuilder/git-checkout
 sudo chown -R buildbot:buildbot /var/cache/pbuilder/git-checkout

Create the buildbot slaves.

 virtualenv/bin/buildslave create-slave --relocatable --umask=0022 slave-sid-i386 localhost:9989 slave-sid-i386 123456
 virtualenv/bin/buildslave create-slave --relocatable --umask=0022 slave-sid-amd64 localhost:9989 slave-sid-amd64 123456

Create the buildbot master.

 git clone https://github.com/LuisAlejandro/django-packagebuilder.git master
 virtualenv/bin/buildbot upgrade-master master

Configure supervisor daemon for buildbot.

 sudo cat << EOF > /etc/supervisor/conf.d/buildbot.conf
 [program:buildbot-master]
 command=/home/buildbot/buildbot/virtualenv/bin/buildbot restart --nodaemon /home/buildbot/buildbot/master/
 user=buildbot

 [program:buildbot-slave-i386]
 command=/home/buildbot/buildbot/virtualenv/bin/buildslave restart --nodaemon /home/buildbot/buildbot/slave-sid-i386
 user=buildbot

 [program:buildbot-slave-amd64]
 command=/home/buildbot/buildbot/virtualenv/bin/buildslave restart --nodaemon /home/buildbot/buildbot/slave-sid-amd64
 user=buildbot
 EOF

Create a new package repository for finished packages.

 mkdir -p /var/cache/pbuilder/repo/conf
 cat << EOF > /var/cache/pbuilder/repo/conf/distributions
 Origin: Local
 Label: Local
 Codename: local
 Suite: local
 Architectures: amd64 i386
 Components: main
 EOF
 reprepro -b /var/cache/pbuilder/repo/ -VVV export

Restart the supervisor.
```
sudo service supervisor restart
```

Configuration

Open the file buildhelpers/packages.py and fill in as many packages as you want to build, according to the following:

packages = {
    'package-name': {
        'repository': '',
        'branch': '',
        'prebuild-script': '',
        'prebuild-deps': ''
    },
    'package-name': {
        'repository': '',
        'branch': '',
        'prebuild-script': '',
        'prebuild-deps': ''
    }

    ...
}

package-name: is the name of the package to be built.
repository: a git repository where to find the package code.
branch: the branch of the git repository to be built.
prebuild-script (optional): a script needed to be run before building.
prebuild-deps (optional): a list of packages needed by the prebuild-script or other parts of the building process (separated by spaces).

Restart the supervisor after all changes have been made.

sudo service supervisor restart

LuisAlejandro/buildbot-packagebuilder

Buildbot Package Builder

Deprecation notice

Steps for using Buildbot Package Builder

Configuration