Koji + Mash -- Recommendations Please

[John.Florian at dart.biz]

amessina at messinet.com wrote on 11/04/2013 18:56:08:
> 
> On Monday, November 04, 2013 05:28:28 PM John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:
> > From what I gather, mash is the tool of choice for composing usable
> > repositories out of koji's build efforts.  What advice do y'all have 
for
> > integrating the two?  Presently, I've got mash running via cron every 
15m
> > but that hardly seems optimal as it's a lot of busy work if I'm not
> > building packages for several days and conversely adds more latency 
into my
> > build + deploy + test timeline if a build finishes right after mash 
does.
> >  Seems like a hook or callback is in order, but I've not seen any 
write ups
> > on this subject.  Also, I had a rpm built by koji which then made it 
over
> > to my repo via mash, but then I got busy for a few days on other 
tasks.
> >  When I came back it appears that my rpm has disappeared from the 
repo.
> >  I'm guessing kojira cleaned it up, but I was under the impression 
that
> > such cleanup wouldn't propagate to the repo.
> 
> I use a very custom koji-maint [1] script, but you could take a look at 
the 
> mashCreateRepos function for some ideas.  I run it from a systemd timer 
unit 
> once a day.  You could have systemd run it more often if you 
wanted,since the 
> design goal was to only have mash create new repositories *if* the file 
date 
> from the previously created repo is older that the last package tagged 
in the 
> specific Koji build target.
> 
> -A
> 
> 1. https://messinet.com/trac/browser/koji-maint/koji-maint
> 
> -- 
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Thanks for that link.  Looks to have all sorts of handy features.  Package 
signing is another item on my checklist and I see you've got code in there 
for that too.  I'll have to hack on this (or so it appears) to get it 
working with certificate-based authentication.  Would you be interested in 
any such patches?

--
John Florian
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