Cockpit page for managing software updates for OSTree based systems.
Make sure you have npm available (usually from your distribution package).
These commands check out the source and build it into the dist/ directory:
git clone https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-ostree.git
cd cockpit-ostree
make
make install compiles and installs the package in /usr/share/cockpit/. The
convenience targets srpm and rpm build the source and binary rpms,
respectively. Both of these make use of the dist-gzip target, which is used
to generate the distribution tarball. In production mode, source files are
automatically minified and compressed. Set NODE_ENV=production if you want to
duplicate this behavior.
For development, you usually want to run your module straight out of the git
tree. To do that, link that to the location were cockpit-bridge looks for
packages:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/cockpit
ln -s `pwd`/dist ~/.local/share/cockpit/ostree
After changing the code and running make again, reload the Cockpit page in
your browser.
Run make check to build an RPM, install it into a standard Cockpit test VM
(fedora-atomic by default), and run the test/check-ostree integration test on
it. This uses Cockpit's Chrome DevTools Protocol based browser tests, through a
Python API abstraction. Note that this API is not guaranteed to be stable, so
if you run into failures and don't want to adjust tests, consider checking out
Cockpit's test/common from a tag instead of master (see the test/common
target in Makefile).
After the test VM is prepared, you can manually run the test without rebuilding the VM, possibly with extra options for tracing and halting on test failures (for interactive debugging):
TEST_OS=fedora-atomic test/check-ostree -tvs
You can also run the test against a different Cockpit image, for example:
TEST_OS=continuous-atomic make check
Once your cloned project is ready for a release, you should consider automating that. Cockpituous release aims to fully automate project releases to GitHub, Fedora, Ubuntu, COPR, Docker Hub, and other places. The intention is that the only manual step for releasing a project is to create a signed tag for the version number; pushing the tag then triggers a GitHub webhook that calls a set of release scripts (on Cockpit's CI infrastructure).
starter-kit includes an example cockpitous release script that builds an upstream release tarball and source RPM. Please see the above cockpituous documentation for details.