Adding builders without NFS access

[Mike McLean]

On 09/28/2009 12:39 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> I believe that currently any koji builder needs to have read-only access to
> /mnt/koji, normally realized by NFS mounting.  I am wondering if there is a
> way to add builders to a koji instance without requiring this.

This is entirely possible and has been in place for years I think. As 
Jesse points out, you need to make sure any builders that lack the nfs 
mount are not in the createrepo channel.

Also, you need to make sure you have the builders configured for http 
access. That means you need to set topurl instead of topdir in the 
config as well as setting the pkgurl option. Of course that means your 
kojidir must be http accessible from somewhere.

I should also point out that the shared fs need not be accomplished by 
nfs (though this is arguably the easiest method). There are multiple 
ways of sharing a filesystem across machines.