f2r 2.9.0

Produces RPMs for FLP packages out of aliBuild ouput

f2r

Command line tool to create RPMs out of aliBuild output.

Prerequisites

• aliBuild
• environment Modules 4.3 or higher, RPM is available from this S3 location
• Optional: To enable S3 support you need to create a config file under ~/.s3cfg, see CERN IT instructions
• gem + fpm: yum install rubygems -y ; gem install fpm

Installation

To just install the tool: python3 -m pip install f2r

OR

Use flp-release-server role from system-configuration to fully provision a build server.

Quickstart

Build packages using aliBuild, eg:

aliBuild build O2Suite --defaults o2-dataflow --always-prefer-system

Then, run alienv as indicated by aliBuild in order to create modulefiles:

alienv enter O2Suite/latest-o2-dataflow
exit # do not forget to exit

And create RPMs providing same package and version as to alienv:

f2r generate --package O2Suite --version latest-o2-dataflow

Validate created RPMs (this requires sudo):

f2r validate

Create YUM repo:

f2r repo

and sync it to S3:

f2r sync

CLI options

Simple run f2r -h to see all available options

Developers documentation

Software lifecycle

• Make changes and merge MR when all tests pass
• Bump version in setup.py
• Publish to PyPI
  • python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
  • TWINE_USERNAME=$TWINE_USERNAME TWINE_PASSWORD=$TWINE_PASSWORD python3 -m twine upload --repository pypi dist/*
• Update build server using pip

Simple description of the logic

Creates tree of dependencies by recursively iterating over "alidist" recipes. It disables certain packages based on selected "defaults". It retrieves versioning information from "modulefiles" (as "alidist" recipes do not provide that).

It is capable of generating "devel" RPMs. In such case, in addition to runtime dependencies, it also packs build dependencies. (NOTE: There is no source of truth for build dependencies versioning, therefore the latest available version is used.)

It picks up system dependencies when aliBuild package is not available. For this reason it uses definitions in (devel|runtime).slc*.yaml file translate system dependencies into list of RPM packages.

Then, it uses fpm tool to generate RPMs.