GSoC 2012: On-Demand Fedora Build Service: Update #3
I have pushed a working snapshot of the image building code to github[1]. Here is a sample run of the code:
$ sudo python imagebuild.py -t boot -a i386 -o image_op1 -w image_work -p fedora -r 17 -v 1 -nvr 'anaconda-17.26-1.fc17' -bid '318281' '311809'
This command line spawns the build process of a Fedora 17 boot.iso with a number of extra packages (specified via their NVR or build IDs):
$ sudo python imagebuild.py -t boot -a i386 -o image_op1 -w image_work -p fedora -r 17 -v 1 -nvr 'anaconda-17.26-1.fc17' -bid '318281' '311809'
Downloading Extra Packages
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete
Building Boot ISO
checking for root privileges
checking yum base object
setting up build architecture
setting up build parameters
installing runtime packages
running runtime-install.tmpl
downloading packages
( 1/592) [100%] downloading GConf2-3.2.5-1.fc17.i686.rpm
( 2/592) [100%] downloading ModemManager-0.5.2.0-1.fc17.i686.rpm
( 3/592) [100%] downloading NetworkManager-0.9.4.0-7.git20120403.fc17.i686.rpm
( 4/592) [100%] downloading NetworkManager-glib-0.9.4.0-7.git20120403.fc17....
( 4/592) [100%] downloading NetworkManager-glib-0.9.4.0-7.git20120403.fc17....
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Finally, a boot.iso is created. Next, I plan to inegrate package retrieval from Koji via other methods. And then, support for creating Live images and DVD images. And then, the REST API/Web based service.
Some of the scripts I was experimenting with to pull packages are here [2].
[1] https://github.com/amitsaha/gsoc2012_fbs/tree/master/image_builder
[2] https://github.com/amitsaha/gsoc2012_fbs/tree/master/scripts
Programming and writing about it. 