SIMP Version Matrix
SIMP Version | RHEL/CentOS Version | Images Required | Mock Build Environment |
---|---|---|---|
4.2.X | 6.7 | DVD1 and DVD2 | epel-6-x86_64 |
5.1.X | 7.1(RHEL) / 7.0(CentOS) | 1511 release (CentOS) | epel-7-x86_64 |
Prerequisites
Make sure you are a normal user and not root!
Complete installation media for your chosen distribution
- If there is more than one disc, you will need all of them
Make sure you have finished setting up your build environment.
60G of space in /var/lib/mock
Mock Mount Information
Please note that the partition that contains /var/lib/mock must be mounted with the options exec
and dev
for Mock to run properly.
(Check your /etc/fstab and make sure the partition that contains mock does not have nodev
or noexec
in the options.)
The
gpg
executable must be in the user's path (Fedora package:gnupg, EL package: gnupg2)
Repoclosure Issues
Presently, there are issues with EPEL expiring packages in our
packages.yaml
files on the fly.The most recent of these is that python-six was pulled from EPEL and included directly in CentOS 6.7.
While this is awesome, it makes getting a consistent build made difficult and we're looking into this issue.
If all else fails, add the remote CentOS repos to the build/yum_data/<target_version>/repos directory, then erase the offending RPMs from packages.yaml, to work around this for now.
Automated ISO build
This method fully automates the rest of the rake tasks and is the fastest way to get started.
- check out simp-core to your desired branch (e.g., 4.2.X or 5.1.X)
- download the ISOs you wish to use
run the following rake task:
$ bundle exec rake build:auto[5.1.X,/path/to/ISOs]
- The rake tasks will find the appropriate ISOs in the directory and build everything.
- type
bundle exec rake build:auto
for more options and environment variables.
Building from a tarball release
This method uses a pre-existing tarball to build the SIMP ISO:
- Head over to the BinTray repository and find the version of SIMP that you wish to build.
Create the DVD_Overlay directory
$ mkdir -p build/DVD_Overlay
Download the version that you want into the DVD_Overlay directory
$ cd build/DVD_Overlay $ curl -LO https://bintray.com/artifact/download/simp/Releases/SIMP-DVD-CentOS-4.2.0-RC1.tar.gz $ cd -
You can now proceed to Building the ISO.
Building from Scratch
Prerequisites
Make sure the following additional packages are installed and up to date:
mock
ClamAV # or whatever includes freshclam (on Fedora, the package is called clamav-update)
Download all the SIMP source components
This will destroy any changes you might have staged in the dependency tree!
# If you want the latest version of every repo in Puppetfile.tracking: $ rake deps:checkout # If you are compiling from a particular tagged release: # $ rake deps:checkout[stable]
If you've never run the build process before, you may need to run the following to make sure you have all of the bundles you need for all of the submodules in this project
$ rake build:bundle
Build the DVD overlay tarball. Further documentation for the arguments is available in rake (r
ake -D
).$ rake tar:build[epel-6-x86_64,dev,false] (builds for CentOS/RHEL 6, dev key, no docs)
Build the ISO
This example is based around using CentOS 6.7.
- cd into simp-core
Download all of the required packages for the build:
$ rake build:yum:sync[<CentOS or RHEL>,<os_version>] # Example: rake build:yum:sync[CentOS,6.7] # Note: Use 7.0 for CentOS 7
If you have previously downloaded packages from yum, you may need to run
$ rake build:yum:clean_cache
- Optionally, you may drop in custom packages you wish to have available during an install into
build/yum_data/SIMP<simp_version>_<CentOS or RHEL><os_version>_<architecture>/packages
Take your favorite RHEL or CentOS ISOs and place them in some directory somewhere with enough space to hold 3 copies.
CentOS ISO Retrieval Example$ mkdir /tmp/CentOS_Build $ cd /tmp/CentOS_Build $ curl -LO http://mirror.vtti.vt.edu/centos/6.7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso $ curl -LO http://mirror.vtti.vt.edu/centos/6.7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
Unpack the ISOs
$ mkdir orig $ cd orig $ BUNDLE_GEMFILE=/path/to/simp-core/Gemfile rake -f /path/to/simp-core/Rakefile unpack["/path/to/ISO/CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso"] $ BUNDLE_GEMFILE=/path/to/simp-core/Gemfile rake -f /path/to/simp-core/Rakefile unpack["/path/to/ISO/CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso"]
Make a new directory for your custom ISO build and copy the contents of the extracted ISOs
$ cd .. $ mkdir 4.2.X $ cd 4.2.X $ cp -rl ../orig/CentOS6.7-x86_64 .
And finally, build the ISO:
$ BUNDLE_GEMFILE=/path/to/simp-core/Gemfile rake -f /path/to/simp-core/Rakefile iso:build["/path/to/simp-core/build/DVD_Overlay/SIMP-DVD-CentOS-4.2.0-RC1.tar.gz"]