Tuesday, March 30, 2010

ARMs Length

So after reading and tweaking sample openssl code and config here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji/ServerHowTo

I managed to break the code down into 2 separate peices. One for making the CA and one for making the certs for the different users. Now the way my script differs from the original is that it uses the variables passed to it as the default commonName in the ssl.cnf file.

For example, when executing my script to create a cert for a new user...lets say "kojiuser1":

#./certscript kojiuser1

The script as usual asks the various questions about where you are from and the OU name and the province etc, etc, but is then followed by the question of what the commonName should be. This name and/or the OU name should always be different from any other certs already created or you will get a TXT_ error. My script makes pressing enter easier by allowing you to press enter knowing that the commonName will be (by default).. "kojiuser1". Now this may not seem like anything huge for the creation of one user but what if we were creating multiple users (which was the case with me).

#for user in arm{1..25}
>do
>./certscript $user
>done

In addition, a folder called "confs" holds all the conf files used to make the certs, this makes backtracking easier. For now only one line gets modified but it leaves progression for future endeavours. The only time you need to press a key other than enter is when it asks if you want to sign the cert. Of course 95% of the script remains the same as before but this modification makes life one step easier and hence minimizes the length of the cert creation process.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

ARM mock build info for beneath-a-steel-sky-cd

Source RPM: beneath-a-steel-sky-cd-0.0372-4.fc12.src.rpm
Processor: ARM processor (under emulation)
Command used: mock -r fedora-12-arm ~/armPacks/beneath-a-steel-sky-cd-0.0372-4.fc12.src.rpm

Comments: (SUCCESS)

firstbuild:

real 13m43.593s
user 9m27.560s
sys 2m41.840s

secondbuild:

real 13m18.596s
user 9m23.130s
sys 2m15.540s

ARM mock Build info for python-basemap

Source RPM: python-basemap-0.99.2-5.fc12.src.rpm
Processor: ARM processor (under emulation)
Command used: mock -r fedora-12-arm ~/armPacks/python-basemap-0.99.2-5.fc12.src.rpm

Comments:

After approximately 8 minutes the build fails and produces 2 errors saying

1. "Bad build req: No Package Found for geos-devel. Exiting."

2. "Exception(/home/user1/armPacks/python-basemap-0.99.2-5.fc12.src.rpm) Config(fedora-12-arm) 6 minutes 29 seconds"

After investigating the build/error logs located at "/var/lib/mock/fedora-12-arm/" it was realized that geos-devel was an intricate component for python-basemap and could not be excluded.

This issue will be revisited later.