Introducing Zeynep. Building rpms in a clean environment.
Posted: Jan 14th, '15, 14:15Hi. I have written yet another utility which builds rpms from a source rpm in a clean chroot: Zeynep.
I'm well aware of "Mageia-chroot scripts", iurt and aum (++). But they simply do not meet my needs. I needed a script which needs less typing, easily configurable but let me set every possible aspects of options (temp directory, packages to install chroot, defining urpmi options at runtime etc.), uses a rpm cache to save me time/bandwith (but do not require a full Mageia mirror), have a full translation support, can use some kind of a plugin system and most important an understandable/playable code for me (bash).
While others do their work well, i can not find enough usage options, documantation for iurt. Aum (Perl) and aum++ (C++) were not understandable/extendible by me. I found that Mageia-chroot scripts are not enough for me. Most important they currently do not provide localization support.
So, zeynep was born:
I make it for myself but wanted to share with others. Let's give a try to it!
Source code: https://github.com/tarakbumba/zeynep
Latest release: https://github.com/tarakbumba/zeynep/releases/latest
License: GNU GPL v.2
I'm well aware of "Mageia-chroot scripts", iurt and aum (++). But they simply do not meet my needs. I needed a script which needs less typing, easily configurable but let me set every possible aspects of options (temp directory, packages to install chroot, defining urpmi options at runtime etc.), uses a rpm cache to save me time/bandwith (but do not require a full Mageia mirror), have a full translation support, can use some kind of a plugin system and most important an understandable/playable code for me (bash).
While others do their work well, i can not find enough usage options, documantation for iurt. Aum (Perl) and aum++ (C++) were not understandable/extendible by me. I found that Mageia-chroot scripts are not enough for me. Most important they currently do not provide localization support.
So, zeynep was born:
- Written in bash, needs a few external tools (like urpmi, rpm, sudo, rpm-tidy, rpm-sign, gettext, sed and basename) outside of bash.
- It have configuration support which enables that user define options and arguments in a zeynep-*.conf file so user less types in terminal to get the results.
- It also provides a basic plugin system for now only for package building phase (before and after) as functions determined in the configuration file.
- It can use cache which should include previously downloaded rpms but not the entire Mageia mirror.
- It can allow the user to enable Non-free/Tainted/Backports media sources for either chroot tar archive creation or package building.
- It can automatically uploads created packages to a user defined directory, sign them and create genhdlists.
- It is fully translatable
I make it for myself but wanted to share with others. Let's give a try to it!
Source code: https://github.com/tarakbumba/zeynep
Latest release: https://github.com/tarakbumba/zeynep/releases/latest
License: GNU GPL v.2