This document provides some notes you might consider useful, but aren’t necessarily related to jenkins-debian-glue itself.
Goal: Clean installation of https://github.com/cowboyd/jenkins.rb on Debian, using Debian packages.
Recipe provided by Michael Prokop:
mkdir jenkins-rb.deb ; cd jenkins-rb.deb gem2deb httparty gem2deb crack gem2deb thor sudo apt-get install libterm-ansicolor-ruby ruby-json libbuilder-ruby sudo dpkg -i ruby-crack_*.deb ruby-httparty_*.deb ruby-jenkins_*.deb ruby-thor_*.deb
Recipe provided by Michael Gebetsroither:
git clone https://github.com/gebi/rubyrrdtool.git cd rubyrrdtool ruby extconf.rb make checkinstall -D --pkgname=rubyrrdtool [email protected] --install=no --pkgversion=0.6.0 make install
Goal: Clean installation of https://launchpad.net/python-jenkins on Debian, using Debian packages.
Recipe provided by Michael Prokop:
bzr branch lp:python-jenkins cd python-jenkins apt-get install python-stdeb python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/python-*deb
Goal: Do not build stuff on Jenkins Master/Slaves but use a dedicated chroot instead.
Background: Whereas jenkins-debian-glue uses cowbuilder/pbuilder and its separate chroots for building you might want to also build e.g. documentation without abusing your main build host(s). Using dedicated chroots as slave nodes inside Jenkins provides that.
Set up a basic chroot (e.g. Debian/squeeze):
debootstrap squeeze /srv/chroot_documentation_builder http://debian.inode.at/debian wget -O ./make_chroot_jail https://github.com/grml/grml-scripts/raw/master/usr_sbin/make_chroot_jail bash ./make_chroot_jail chroot-docs /bin/chroot-shell /srv/chroot_documentation_builder
Test the login via SSH running:
ssh chroot-docs@localhost
Finally install Java (required for Jenkins) and build-essential (and optionally whatever you might also need):
chroot /srv/chroot_documentation_builder mount -t proc none /proc apt-get install openjdk-6-jre mkdir /var/lib/jenkins chown chroot-docs /var/lib/jenkins/ apt-get install build-essential
Then configure a new Slave node in Jenkins using /var/lib/jenkins as $HOME directory and user chroot-docs as login.