RHCS Release Manager

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These are notes, primarily for me, used in my RHCS release manager tasks.

Test Results

These tests are run by copying over the tarball created on the build machine (my laptop), untar'ing it and running ./configure && make.

Testing v3.1.8

Distro	Arch	Date tested	Results	Notes
Fedora Rawhide	x86_64	Dec. 01, 2011	Problem	It couldn't determine the kernel version at all. Tried make-ing anyway; Seemed to succeed. ./configure Configuring Makefiles for your system... Checking tree: nothing to do Checking kernel: WARNING: Could not determine kernel version. Build might fail! Completed Makefile configuration make ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/cluster-3.1.8/doc' make -C contrib all make[1]: Entering directory `/root/cluster-3.1.8/contrib' set -e && \ for i in ; do \ make -C $i all; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/cluster-3.1.8/contrib'
Fedora Rawhide	i386	Dec. 01, 2011	Problem	It couldn't determine the kernel version at all. Tried make-ing anyway; Seemed to succeed. ./configure Configuring Makefiles for your system... Checking tree: nothing to do Checking kernel: WARNING: Could not determine kernel version. Build might fail! Completed Makefile configuration make ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/cluster-3.1.8/doc' make -C contrib all make[1]: Entering directory `/root/cluster-3.1.8/contrib' set -e && \ for i in ; do \ make -C $i all; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/cluster-3.1.8/contrib'
Fedora 16	x86_64	Dec. 01, 2011	Failed!	It looks like it's comparing the y number, and ignoring x. ./configure Configuring Makefiles for your system... Checking tree: nothing to do Checking kernel: Current kernel version: 3.1.2 Minimum kernel version: 2.6.31 FAILED!
Fedora 16	i386	Dec. 01, 2011	Failed!	It looks like it's comparing the y number, and ignoring x. ./configure Configuring Makefiles for your system... Checking tree: nothing to do Checking kernel: Current kernel version: 3.1.2 Minimum kernel version: 2.6.31 FAILED!
Fedora 15	x86-64	Dec. 01, 2011	Success
Fedora 15	i386	Dec. 01, 2011	Success
Debian 6	amd64	Dec. 01, 2011	Incompatible	This will not work on Debian 6 because cpg_ringid isn't in the version of corosync provided by Debian
Debian 6	i386	Dec. 01, 2011	Incompatible	This will not work on Debian 6 because cpg_ringid isn't in the version of corosync provided by Debian
Ubuntu 11.10	amd64	Dec. 01, 2011	Problem	Unable to determine kernel version, but seems to build fine. ./configure Configuring Makefiles for your system... Checking tree: nothing to do Checking kernel: WARNING: Could not determine kernel version. Build might fail! Completed Makefile configuration
Ubuntu 11.10	i386	Dec. 01, 2011	Problem	Unable to determine kernel version, but seems to build fine. ./configure Configuring Makefiles for your system... Checking tree: nothing to do Checking kernel: WARNING: Could not determine kernel version. Build might fail! Completed Makefile configuration

Distro Testing

Note: Always update the OS before running tests!

Fedora 15, 16 and Rawhide

Packages to install;

yum -y groupinstall "Development Libraries" "Development Tools" "Fedora Packager"
yum -y install vim wget corosynclib-devel openaislib-devel

Debian 6

Packages to install;

apt-get update
apt-get -y install rsync bzip2 linux-headers-$(uname -r) make liblogthread-dev gcc libxml2-dev libcorosync-dev libldap-dev \
 zlib1g-dev libopenais-dev pkg-config libdbus-1-dev

Ubuntu 11.10

Packages to install;

apt-get update
apt-get -y dist-upgrade
apt-get -y install linux-headers-$(uname -r) libxml2-dev libcorosync-dev libldap2-dev zlib1g-dev libopenais-dev libdbus-1-dev \
 libslang2-dev libncurses5-dev

Build Environment

This is how to setup a machine for building and releasing new version of RHCS. This requires a proper FAS account.

yum -y groupinstall "Development Libraries" "Development Tools" "Fedora Packager"
yum -y install vim wget gnupg

Build cluster.

git clone ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git
cd cluster/
git branch stable31 --track origin/STABLE31
git checkout stable31

Change this to reflect the appropriate versions.

make -f make/release.mk version=3.1.8 oldversion=3.1.7

Pushing Changes to git

Initial Setup of git

Don't have notes, this is from bash's history. Sort this out later.

1. Misc commands

man git-send-email git clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git man git git branch http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git man git git show-branch http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git git clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git git show-branch git branch </source>

Pushing To origin

Confirming the changes before committing.

git diff

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 9c7a773..4e9bc2a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -254,13 +254,14 @@ sub kernel_version {
     }
     close MAKEFILE;
     # Warn and continue if kernel version was not found
-    if (!$build_version || !$build_patchlevel || !$build_sublevel) {
+    if (not defined $build_version || not defined $build_patchlevel || not defined $build_sublevel) {
        print " WARNING: Could not determine kernel version.\n";
        print "          Build might fail!\n";
        return 1;
     }
     # checking VERSION, PATCHLEVEL and SUBLEVEL for the supplied kernel
-    if ($build_version >= $version[0] &&
+    if (($build_version > $version[0]) ||
+        $build_version == $version[0] &&
         $build_patchlevel >= $version[1] &&
         $build_sublevel >= $version[2]) {
       print " Current kernel version appears to be OK\n";

Pushing changes;

Commit locally with signature.

git commit -a -s

(open's editor)

[stable31 9be00f8] Changes the kernel version check to handle 3.x.y kernels. Now if the 'x' version of the running kernel is higher than the 'x' version of the minimum kernel, the test passes. Also changed the method of checking that version numbers were gathered so that a version number of '0' would be seen as valid.
 Committer: Digital Mermaid <digimer@lework.alteeve.com>
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on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:

    git config --global user.name "Your Name"
    git config --global user.email you@example.com

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

    git commit --amend --reset-author

 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Check the current branch name.

git branch

  master
* stable31

This shows that stable31 is active.

Now push up to the main git repo.

git push origin stable31:STABLE31

Counting objects: 5, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 543 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git
   991bfb0..9be00f8  stable31 -> STABLE31

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