osbuild-composer cannot be run from the source tree, but has to be installed onto a system. We recommend doing this by building rpms, with:
make rpm
This will build rpms from the latest git HEAD (remember to commit changes), for
the current operating system, with a version that contains the commit hash. The
packages end up in ./rpmbuild/RPMS/$arch.
RPMS are easiest to deal with when they're in a dnf repository. To turn this directory into a dnf repository and serve it on localhost:8000, run:
createrepo_c ./rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 python3 -m http.server --directory ./rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 8000
To start a ephemeral virtual machine using this repository, run:
tools/deploy-qemu IMAGE tools/deploy/test
IMAGE has to be a path to an cloud-init-enabled image matching the host
operating system, because that's what the packages where built for above.
Note that the Fedora/RHEL cloud images might be too small for some tests
to pass. Run qemu-img resize IMAGE 10G to grow them, cloud-init's growpart
module will grow the root partition automatically during boot.
The second argument points to a directory from which cloud-init user-data is
generated (see tools/gen-user-data for details). The one given above tries to
mimick what is run on osbuild-composer's continuous integration
infrastructure, i.e., installing osbuild-composer-tests and starting the
service.
The virtual machine uses qemu's user networking, forwarding port 22 to the host's 2222 and 443 to 4430. You can log into the running machine with
ssh admin@localhost -p 2222
The password is foobar. Stopping the machine loses all data.
For a quick compile and debug cycle, we recommend iterating code using thorough unit tests before going through the full workflow described above.