Debian Perl Vagrant

Playing with vagrant boxes for helping Debian Perl job.

Warning!

I'm afraid that the debian-sid.box file size is 1.3 GB. I know it is too much for a minimal vagrant box, but the fact that there's no easy way to install sid from scratch makes it difficult to make it tinier. I'll keep trying.

On this first attempt to build a vagrant box for debian-perl the puppet-common package was missing, so you need to install it from the shell before provisioning the box. That will be fixed in the future, too.

Starting

git submodule update --init
vagrant up --no-provision
vagrant ssh -c "sudo apt-get update"
vagrant ssh -c "sudo apt-get install puppet-common"
vagrant provision

Identifying

vagrant ssh
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your.name@example.org"
echo 'export DEBFULLNAME="Your Name"'          >> ~/.bash_aliases
echo 'export DEBEMAIL="your.name@example.org"' >> ~/.bash_aliases
echo 'Host *.debian.org'                       >> ~/.ssh/config
echo '    user your-alioth-username'           >> ~/.ssh/config

Cloning

vagrant ssh
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/meta.git pkg-perl

Creating

vagrant ssh
mkdir ~/src/pkg-perl/packages
cd ~/src/pkg-perl/packages
dh-make-perl --pkg-perl --cpan Foo::Bar

Pushing

vagrant ssh
git config --global push.default simple
cd ~/src/pkg-perl/packages/libfoo-bar-perl
git status
git log
git remote -v
git branch -av
dpt alioth-repo

Patching

vagrant ssh
cd ~/src/pkg-perl/packages/libfoo-bar-perl
quilt new fix-something.patch
quilt edit path/to/file
quilt fold < someone-elses-patch.diff
quilt refresh
quilt pop
prove -e "patchedit check" debian/patches/fix-something.patch
git add debian/patches
git commit
git push --all

Building

vagrant ssh
sudo cowbuilder --create
cd ~/src/pkg-perl/packages/libfoo-bar-perl
pdebuild --pbuilder cowbuilder

Upgrading

vagrant ssh
cd ~/src/pkg-perl/packages/libfoo-bar-perl
uscan --report
gbp pull
git checkout upstream
git checkout master
gbp import-orig --uscan --pristine-tar --upstream-branch=upstream

Releasing

dch -r
git commit
git tag debian/${RELEASE}
git push --all
git push --tags
(cd .. && dput ftp-master *.changes)

schroot

Please, add a new hard drive (sdb) and then follow these steps:

sudo apt-get install sbuild
sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb1
sudo vgcreate schroot /dev/sdb1
sudo lvcreate -n schroot-sid -L1G schroot
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/schroot/schroot-sid
sudo mount /dev/schroot/schroot-sid /mnt
sudo sbuild-createchroot sid /mnt http://httpredir.debian.org/debian
sudo umount /mnt
cat <<EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/schroot/chroot.d/sid.conf
[sid]
type=lvm-snapshot
device=/dev/schroot/schroot-sid
description=Debian sid
users=vagrant
root-users=vagrant
source-root-users=root
aliases=unstable
lvm-snapshot-options=--size 2G
EOF

schroot-sid

cat <<EOF | sudo schroot -c source:sid
echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50schroot-sid
EOF
sudo schroot -c source:sid -- chmod 644 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50schroot-sid
sudo sbuild-update -udr sid

autopkgtest

sudo apt-get install autopkgtest pkg-perl-autopkgtest
adt-run libfoo-bar-perl --- schroot sid

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