Setting up a Koji server

Michael Thomas wart at kobold.org
Tue Jul 8 22:32:36 UTC 2008


After 2 years of bitter complaining, I think I'm finally starting to 
convince our group's primary grid middleware provider to offer rpms as 
an alternative to the current ass-backwards packaging tool.  The 
provider has ~360 packages for a bunch of things that are already in 
Fedora (like syslog-ng, tomcat, squid), but also many things that 
unforutnately can't be part of Fedora due to licensing restrictions. 
Obviously it would be best to use the native Fedora/RHEL/EPEL packages 
where possible, submit the missing OSS tools to Fedora/EPEL, and only 
repackage the OSS-challenged tools.

I'll be meeting with this provider later this week to discuss some ideas 
to make sure this migration is as painless as possible.  One of the 
things that I think they would benefit greatly from is a local koji 
installation.  Is there any documentation on what it takes to set up an 
full koji environment with builders for 32- and 64-bit RHEL4, RHEL5, and 
Fedora, as well as configuring CVS to work with Koji?

Regards,

--Wart




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