Koji Testbed

The Koji setup on the testbed

The Koji system is used by Fedora for builds of packages for Fedora Core and EPEL. It is open source and available as a standard package, and documentation for running a private installation is available.

Koji consists of a number of interrelated components:

• Koji Hub, the central XMLRPC service.
• A postgresql database as a backend for the hub
• Koji Web, a user interface front-end for the hub (other interaction is by the command-line client)
• Kojira, managing repository building and clean-up.
• One or more builders, on separate machines.

It is possible to install most of these components on separate machines, but our simple setup has only two:

• koji-hub.testbed, holding the hub, web, kojira and database
• koji-builder.testbed, for building i386 and x86_64 packages. We could install more builders if needs be.

Both machines share access to a large NFS share on put.testbed:/mnt/put/koji for storing results and buildroots. Currently both machines are deployed on the M610 blades (blade13 and blade14) with the possibility for hot migration.

The installation mostly followed the very complete guidance on [1], choosing the SSL authentication option.

SSL Authentication

The authentication system is picky when it comes to Common Names. For users, they have to be the same as user ids, and for servers (only koji-hub.testbed, really) it has to be the fully qualified host name.

A new CA was created for the purpose of handing out certificates (as reuse of existing certificates was hard because of the above restriction, but we may still find a way around that sometime). The CA installation is currently found on bleek.testbed:/srv/koji-pki.

For access to koji-web, the user needs to export the certificate file from there to a pkcs12 file and import it in the browser. For command-line koji use, put it in ~/.koji/clientcert.crt.

Building from git

This step still needs to be automated with a commit hook. The git repository on git://bleek.testbed/koji.git has one subdirectory per component, and each directory contains:

• a SPEC file
• a Makefile with a 'sources' target, which will fetch (with curl) the sources for the package.

After pushing the updates to this repository, record the commit hash and start the koji build like so (replace the hash with yours):

koji build dist-epel5 'git://bleek.testbed/koji.git?lcmaps/#7a2b193fdd8a26875a16303da609952cccc4cba8'

The format is particular to koji; it is parsed as an URL and that is why the ? and # are used to mark certain elements.