Setting up a Koji server

Michael Thomas wart at kobold.org
Tue Jul 8 23:16:27 UTC 2008


Michael Thomas wrote:
> After 2 years of bitter complaining, I think I'm finally starting to 
> convince our group's primary grid middleware provider to offer rpms as 
> an alternative to the current ass-backwards packaging tool.  The 
> provider has ~360 packages for a bunch of things that are already in 
> Fedora (like syslog-ng, tomcat, squid), but also many things that 
> unforutnately can't be part of Fedora due to licensing restrictions. 
> Obviously it would be best to use the native Fedora/RHEL/EPEL packages 
> where possible, submit the missing OSS tools to Fedora/EPEL, and only 
> repackage the OSS-challenged tools.
> 
> I'll be meeting with this provider later this week to discuss some ideas 
> to make sure this migration is as painless as possible.  One of the 
> things that I think they would benefit greatly from is a local koji 
> installation.  Is there any documentation on what it takes to set up an 
> full koji environment with builders for 32- and 64-bit RHEL4, RHEL5, and 
> Fedora, as well as configuring CVS to work with Koji?

This is where I tell myself to RTFW:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji/ServerHowTo

--Wart




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