Planex

Planex is a toolkit for building collections of interdependent RPMs. The main tools are:

• planex-depend - extracts dependencies from Spec files, in make format
• planex-fetch - downloads sources specified in Spec files
• planex-cache - similar to ccache, caches previous builds to speed up rebuilds
• planex-pin - for developers, overrides Spec file sources with local development repositories

Planex also contains a generic makefile which handles dependency resolution and sequences the build. Partial rebuilds and concurrent builds are both supported. By default, packages are built in mock chroots but this can be changed by overriding a variable in the makefile.

Planex runs on RedHat- and Debian-like Linux distributions. On Debian, the planex-makedeb tool can generate source packages which can be passed to cowbuilder to produce binary .deb packages. The makefile has rules to sequence Debian package builds, but planex-cache cannot be used.

Usage

Building a Planex project is straightforward. The Planex repository includes a small demo project:

cd planex-demo
make

See the planex-demo README for a more advanced tutorial, including how to use planex-pin for development.

Installation from binary packages

CentOS 7

yum install epel-release
yum install https://xenserver.github.io/planex-release/release/rpm/el/planex-release-7-1.noarch.rpm
yum install planex

Fedora 21

yum install https://xenserver.github.io/planex-release/release/rpm/fedora/planex-release-21-1.noarch.rpm
yum install planex

Installation from source

Dependencies

CentOS 7

yum install epel-release yum-utils
yum-builddep planex.spec

Fedora 22

dnf builddep planex.spec

Ubuntu 14.04

apt-get -qy install python-rpm python-setuptools python-argparse rpm

Build and test

python setup.py build
nosetests

Install

python setup.py install