How openSUSE is built
From Source Code to an Installation Disk
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Dan Čermák
| Software Developer @SUSE, SLE BCI Releng | |
| Developer Tools, Testing and Documentation, Home Automation | |
| https://dancermak.name | |
| dcermak | |
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Why even build a distribution?
Just pip/npm/cargo install everything!
$ pip3 install pysqlite3
...
Failed to build pysqlite3
Installing collected packages: pysqlite3
Running setup.py install for pysqlite3 ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Running setup.py install for pysqlite3 did not run successfully.
oops 🫠
From Sources to an Installer
A long time ago…
$ cat INSTALL
BASIC INSTALLATION
On most Unix systems, you build Emacs by first running the
'configure' shell script. This attempts to deduce the
correct values for various system-dependent variables and
features, and find the directories where certain system
headers and libraries are kept. In a few cases, you may
need to explicitly tell configure where to find some things,
or what options to use.
Ain't nobody got time for that (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
It starts with packages
RPM packages
The people behind this
Packaging Team
- update packages
- fix build & test issues
- triage bugreports
- backport bugfixes
You said Dependencies?
Dependency Hell 👿
Distribution Assembly
What's in a distribution?
- installation ISOs
- disk & container images
- binary packages
- repositories
The Distribution Building Pipeline
Repository Assembly
The Factory Process
The people behind this
Release Engineering
- review package submissions & assign to stagings
- review assembly & integration issues
- review tests & bugs
Build system
The people behind this
Buildservice and Buildops
- develop the build service
- run the infrastructure
Testing/QE
Test automation
Run the installer every night?
Ain't nobody got time for that (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
The people behind this
QE & Test tooling Team
- implement test cases
- improve test automation
- review test runs
- verify bugfixes
- manual testing
Infrastructure
- run the infrastructure
- maintain automation
- moderation
Links
Questions?
Answers!