[pve-devel] PVE development environment

[aderumier at odiso.com]

Hi! (Great to see a new French contributor ^_^ )

Personnaly,

I'm coding directly on a remote proxmox dev server with vim through ssh

I'm pulling packages from pvetest repository to try to get the almost
last version without need to build them.

I'm pulling the master branch of the package I want to edit,

make the deb

and if some dependencies need to be updated (because they are too old
in pvetest), I'm rebuilding them. 

I just need time to time rebuild the depend or update them through
pvetest repo, but not so much.


Alexandre


Le jeudi 07 janvier 2021 à 16:17 +0100, Gilles Pietri a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry if this doesn't belong here, point me in the right direction if
> there is one ;)
> 
> I read extensively what's there, and that is very helpful:
> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Documentation
> I also read the thread here: I read also
> https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2018-August/033448.html
> but that deals more with the repos than the actual dev env.
> 
> Now I wonder, this all assumes you work directly on the test setup,
> patch and code from there, and I'm not a big fan of this, for many
> reasons…
> 
> I usually do write code on my own station, that can access various
> test
> setups that I can spawn, be it in virtualbox, test installs of
> proxmox
> or nested ones for actual qemu tests. My question is, how do you guys
> do
> it, if there are any consensual setups?
> 
> I wondered about different possibilities, tested some:
> - coding, versionning on a test environment: I don't like that: I
> need
> to maintain a test environment that includes the coding tools, and it
> will break, again and again, and not be in a reliable state, should I
> need to debug something.
> - compiling locally, having the debian and proxmox tooling, but that
> is
> not a happy solution, as I don't run Debian 10 or proxmox on my
> machine
> - using a set of hooks in git, mirroring stuff to a test instance,
> and
> compiling the packages there, rebooting as needed, that is easy
> enough,
> but I need to factor the dev environment
> - using a CI system to handle that on my branches/remotes, namely
> gitlab-ci with a runner on a pvetest instance, assetting the .debs,
> deploying them… that feels a bit overkill, but… well, I might like
> that
> more, but maybe we could have a lighter way there.
> 
> So, if I'm dumb and there's an obvious choice, just tell me ;)
> If not, I'd love to hear about how you guys do it, and if we could
> make
> suggestions for that!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gilou
> 
> 
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