rbm_steps - Man Page

When you define some project, you can have more than one script definition, for the different steps of the build process (build, test, publish, etc ...), or for different types of packaging (rpm, deb, etc ...).

All the configuration options are shared between all those scripts. However, in some cases you may want some option to have a different value depending of the script that we are running. The name of the script we are going to be running is called the step, and it is possible to have different option values depending on the current step.

The first way to have a different option value depending on the curernt step is to use the IF/ELSE template directives and the step option. The step option contains the name of the current step. For instance, assuming that you defined rpm and deb steps for building rpm and debian packages, if you want to use a different git tag or branch depending on the type of package, you could do:

git_hash: |
 [% IF c('step') == 'rpm' -%]
 dev-rpm
 [%- ELSIF c('step') == 'deb' -%]
 dev-deb
 [%- ELSE -%]
 dev
 [%- END -%]

An other way to do it is to use steps option. This option works in a similar way to the targets option except that it contains a hash indexed by step name rather than a hash indexed by target name..

The steps configuration can be defined in any of the configuration files, using the steps option. This option is an hash, with the steps names as keys, and as value an other hash containing the options to be used for this step.

A project which should use a different git tag or branch depending on whether we are building an rpm or deb package could be defined in the following way:

git_hash: dev
steps:
  rpm:
    git_hash: dev-rpm
  deb:
    git_hash: dev-deb

It is also possible to combine step based configuration with target configuration. For instance you could do:

targets:
  stable:
    git_hash: stable
  dev:
    git_hash: dev
steps:
  rpm:
    targets:
      stable:
        git_hash: stable-rpm
      dev:
        git_hash: dev-rpm
  deb:
    targets:
      stable:
        git_hash: stable-deb
      dev:
        git_hash: dev-deb

If the value of a step is not a hash containing options, but a string, then this name is used as step name. This can be used to alias a step configuration to an other step. For instance you usually want to use the same options for the rpm and srpm scripts, which can be done with the following step alias:

• srpm: rpm

Before starting some build script, you often need to prepare the host for the build. Usually this means installing some dependencies required for the build. After the build finished, you might want to remove those dependencies that have been added.

This can be done using the pre and post options. Those options contains a script that is run as root before and after the build. Those options can be defined globally, or per step.

The pre and post scripts are expected to be run as root. To do that, they are run using the suexec option if run locally, or if run using the remote_exec option the exec_as_root option is set to true. The suexec option takes the suexec_cmd option and runs it as root. By default, the suexec option uses sudo.

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