Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear UDD maintainer,
While attempting to make a patch for #897228, I discovered that the
instructions in [the
wiki](https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase/Hacking)
to setup a UDD development environment do not work:
- Vagrantfile refers to a local/contrib-stretch base box that
probably only exists on your machine; please use debian/stretch64 or somesuch.
- `vagrant up` fails because the repository contains dangling symlinks
that rsync refuses to copy.
I am including patches for those issues.
Unfortunately, none of the scripts under `vagrant/` that are offered to get
real UDD data for development will work for anyone but you: both assume SSH
access to ullman.debian.org, as user lucas.
Would it be possible instead to have UDD publish regular database dumps,
compressed and served over HTTPS? As far as I understand, UDD only contains
public data, and this would make it possible for other people to contribute to
UDD :)
Best,
nicoo
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set
to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>From 4920a15185487dc6a5bd0c63f3a9e9fae210dc39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nico...@braud-santoni.eu>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:36:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gitignore the .vagrant directory
---
.gitignore | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d791b0f..4a8e0eb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ web/how-can-i-help.json.gz
debian.bib
debian.pdf
debian.tex
+/.vagrant
\ No newline at end of file
--
2.17.0
>From a636d2cf41d39df1bc7a5f2ae668479a26ae1a66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nico...@braud-santoni.eu>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:37:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Vagrantfile: Use a base box that is globally available
---
Vagrantfile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 3aac1db..e19546f 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# vi: set ft=ruby :
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
- config.vm.box = "local/contrib-stretch"
+ config.vm.box = "debian/stretch64"
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
--
2.17.0
>From 3e5eba28fbcfd55593551fcb6d31ba59d1951bbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nico...@braud-santoni.eu>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:48:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Vagrantfile: Allow symlinks in the shared folder
---
Vagrantfile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index e19546f..46c422b 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.memory = "4096"
+ vb.customize ["setextradata", :id,
"VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/v-root", "1"]
end
config.vm.provision "shell", path: "vagrant/provision.sh"
--
2.17.0
