Re: Fedora 20 VM on projectatomic.io - notes on geard package

[Clayton Coleman <ccoleman redhat com>]

> On Jun 11, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Ben Parees <bparees redhat com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Clayton Coleman" <ccoleman redhat com>
>> To: "Adam Miller" <maxamillion fedoraproject org>, "Openshift Dev" <dev lists openshift redhat com>
>> Cc: atomic-devel projectatomic io
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 1:15:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: Fedora 20 VM on projectatomic.io - notes on geard package
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 11, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Adam Miller <maxamillion fedoraproject org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>>    I've been messing with the Fedora 20 ProjectAtomic VM recently and
>>> noticed a couple issues with the geard package.
>>> 
>>> 1) lacks sti binary
>> 
>> There shouldn't be a sti binary, use "gear build".
>> 
>>> 
>>> -bash-4.2# rpm -q geard
>>> geard-0-0.9.git3c781d0.fc20.x86_64
>>> -bash-4.2# rpm -ql geard
>>> /usr/bin/gear
>>> /usr/bin/switchns
>>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/geard.service
>>> /usr/sbin/gear-auth-keys-command
>>> /usr/share/doc/geard
>>> /usr/share/doc/geard/README.md
>>> /var/lib/containers
>>> 
>>>> From a rawhide VM of mine (I just updated the geard package so this
>>> brand new, there's also a build for F20 but it's not made it through bodhi
>>> yet).
>>> 
>>> [root rawhide ~]# rpm -q geard
>>> geard-0-0.12.git7516dab.fc21.x86_64
>>> [root rawhide ~]# rpm -ql geard
>>> /usr/bin/gear
>>> /usr/bin/sti
>>> /usr/bin/switchns
>>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/geard.service
>>> /usr/sbin/gear-auth-keys-command
>>> /usr/share/doc/geard
>>> /usr/share/doc/geard/README.md
>>> /var/lib/containers
>> 
>> We should remove this binary.
> 
> Then do we want to create an sti rpm to package just STI?  When we merged STI into the geard repo, the assumption was we'd still want to distribute sti independent of geard for users who just wanted sti functionality.

Sti is a library, exposed today as part of the gear binary.  We may in the future expose it as a plugin to docker, but for now there's really only that one path.

> 
> If we're not going to distribute the sti binary, then we should do away with it entirely and start updating any "sti" docs to just document "geard build" instead.



> 
> 
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 2) There's an issue with 'gear build' though I'm not certain if this is
>>> just geard or some supporting lib/util that also needs updating, so I
>>> would like to do some testing and more digging. But wanted to
>>> point it out none the less.
>>> 
>>> ==== Fedora 20 projectatomic.io VM
>>> -bash-4.2# gear build git://github.com/pmorie/simple-ruby
>>> openshift/ruby-19-centos test-ruby-app --verbose=true
>>> Using docker socket: unix:///var/run/docker.sock
>>> Image contains default script url
>>> ---> Downloading git://github.com/pmorie/simple-ruby to directory
>>> /tmp/sti350258348/src
>>> Cloning into '/tmp/sti350258348/src'...
>>> remote: Reusing existing pack: 9, done.
>>> remote: Total 9 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
>>> Receiving objects: 100% (9/9), done.
>>> Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.
>>> Checking connectivity... done.
>>> Clean build will be performed
>>> Performing source build from git://github.com/pmorie/simple-ruby
>>> Using image name openshift/ruby-19-centos
>>> Using run script from
>>> Using assemble script from
>>> Image has username ruby
>>> An error occured: No assemble script found in provided url, application
>>> source, or default image url.  Aborting.
>> 
>> Cross posting with openshift-dev
>> 
>>> 
>>> ==== Rawhide VM
>>> [root rawhide ~]# gear build git://github.com/pmorie/simple-ruby
>>> openshift/ruby-19-centos test-ruby-app
>>> Downloading git://github.com/pmorie/simple-ruby to directory
>>> /tmp/sti604644461/src
>>> Cloning into '/tmp/sti604644461/src'...
>>> remote: Reusing existing pack: 9, done.
>>> remote: Total 9 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
>>> Receiving objects: 100% (9/9), done.
>>> Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.
>>> Checking connectivity... done.
>>> Clean build will be performed
>>> [root rawhide ~]# getenforce
>>> Enforcing
>>> [root rawhide ~]# rpm -q geard
>>> geard-0-0.12.git7516dab.fc21.x86_64
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I was curious how I would go about doing a tree-compose on my own to
>>> test and make sure these issues are resolve by just the latest geard
>>> package?
>>> 
>>> What's the general workflow for that sort of thing?
>>> 
>>> How would I request a new compose for the Fedora 20 VM hosted at
>>> projectatomic.io in the event this does resolve the issue? (and would I
>>> need to make sure the geard package made it through Bodhi first?)
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> -AdamM
>>