making open-build-service able to run its tests

open-build-server-tests.md

Getting enough OBS to run regression tests

• Download http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OBS:/Server:/Unstable/images/iso/obs-server.x86_64.install.iso (at the time I tried it was obs-server.x86_64-2.4.51-Build8.12.install.iso)

• Create a virtual machine. I used virt-manager with the qemu (kvm) backend, 2048M RAM, 2 (out of 4) CPU cores, installing from the .iso to a 120GB qcow2 virtual disk - at the time of writing it needs to be at least 100GB for the appliance's automatic disk resizing logic to work properly.

• At the GRUB menu choose "Install_OBS_Server"

• Say "yes" to overwriting the virtual disk vda

• Let it reboot into the on-disk OS

• Log in on the console: root/opensuse

• hostnamectl set-hostname obs.virt (or whatever), otherwise the appliance defaults to "linux"

• systemctl reboot

• log in on the console again

  • zypper refresh
  • zypper dup
  • systemctl enable sshd
  • systemctl start sshd
  • useradd -m myuser
  • passwd myuser
  • zypper in sudo
  • zypper in obs-api-testsuite-deps

• configure your host machine's name resolution or /etc/hosts so obs.virt and obs both resolve to the VM

• log in via ssh as myuser

• git clone https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service

• cd ~/open-build-service

  • git submodule init
  • git submodule update

• cd ~/open-build-service/src/api/

  • cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml (this assumes the default root password "opensuse")
  • cp config/options.yml.example config/options.yml
  • RAILS_ENV=development rake db:create
  • RAILS_ENV=development rake db:setup
  • RAILS_ENV=test rake db:create
  • RAILS_ENV=test rake db:setup
  • rake test:api
  • To reset the test database you can do:
    • RAILS_ENV=test rake db:drop
    • RAILS_ENV=test rake db:create
    • RAILS_ENV=test rake db:setup