[Gluster-infra] Automatic nightly builds for glusterfs RPMs?

[Niels de Vos]

Hi all,

during the last weekly meeting we touched upon creating nightly builds 
from the glusterfs.git repository. It seems that Fedora offers a service 
called COPR [1] that makes this really easy. Of course, this builds only 
RPMs for Fedora and EPEL, but I think it is a good start.

IMHO we should aim for building packages from the main glusterfs.git 
repository, and not pull in anything from the Fedora packaging 
infrastructure (dist-git). There are some differences between the Fedora 
packages and the community ones. In future, these should get minimized, 
but we are a little more flexible with the community packages (less 
strict packaging guidelines, making glusterfs-regression-test possible).

I've put a script together [2] that can be used to create the needed 
SRPM, scp's it to a public download location, and triggers a COPR build.  
This script has been used to create COPR repositories for the master 
branch [3], release-3.5 [4] and release-3.4 [5]. Fedora 18-20 and EPEL-6 
are currently available (x86_64 only). For an unknown reason, EPEL-5 
fails to build :-/

It should be pretty easy to use the COPR repositories for automated 
testing. The RPMs are not intended for general consumption. There are 
some things that aren't too nice (like, master branch packages have 
a version of 'date +%Y%m%d'). I have not tried to install any of the 
generated RPMs yet. The main purpose of this exercise is to show whats 
possible with minimal effort.

Any ideas, thoughts or other feedback is much appreciated. Things I'd 
like to see answered are:
- Can something like this be used?
- How/when should these packages get build?
- Should this be run on build.gluster.org or download.gluster.org?
- Sync the repositories to download.gluster.org?
  (Fedora COPR retention is 14 days of old packages, indefinitely for 
  last successful build. Is that sufficient?)

Thanks,
Niels

1. https://fedorahosted.org/copr/
2. https://gist.github.com/nixpanic/cdb97093605e39c52ff8
3. http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/devos/glusterfs/
4. http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/devos/glusterfs-3.5/
5. http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/devos/glusterfs-3.4/