Description

Deployment preparation and execution of the GDP 11 Release images and metadata. :

• Minnowboard
• RPi2
• Community boards
  • RPi3
  • Dragonboard (will not be released).

Deliverables

This task is fully described in the GDP Release Howto document.

• Note old process. go.cd now handles these steps directly, instead of via scripts within Codethink

• Designate a staging area, i.e. a directory to put all the build artifacts.
• Create a fresh checkout of the genivi-dev-platform repo using the release branch, `source init.sh`, tar the whole thing up as oe-source.tar.gz and put it in the staging area.
• This can be simplified to wiping out gdp-src-build/tmp and tarring up the whole thing while excluding everything in gdp-src-build except gdp-src-build/conf bitbake genivi-dev-platform
• Copy tmp/deploy/licenses/genivi-dev-platform-*/license.manifest into the staging area, through go.cd.
• Tar up the whole tmp/deploy/source dir as sources.tar.gz and put it in the staging area, through go.cd..
• Tar up the whole tmp/deploy/licenses dir as licenses.tar.gz and put in the staging area, through go.cd..
• Copy the image manifest to the staging area.
• Copy the kernel to the staging area.
• gzip the rootfs into the staging area.
• Upload all of the staging area into an FTP site (Genivi IT will now directly go to go.cd for the file transfer)
• Notify GENIVI IT
  • Inlcude in the notification the new URLs required for the release content.
  • Sent credentials to GENIVI IT by a second channel

oe sources tarball needs re-deployment

Changes in the process

For those interested in the go.cd template currently being used to generate the artifacts, it can be found here: http://go.genivi.org/go/admin/templates/Yocto_GDP_generic_release/stages/build/job/init_and_bitbake/tasks

For now the go server has to act as the staging area, but I believe it should be possible to directly upload to the genivi ftp server by having a mounted directory, set here: http://go.genivi.org/go/admin/templates/Yocto_GDP_generic_release/stages/build/job/init_and_bitbake/artifacts

The pipelines are also generating a checksum list of all the artifacts created by the specific pipeline execution (e.g http://go.genivi.org/go/files/Release-RaspberryPi3/2/build/1/init_and_bitbake/raspberrypi3/checksums.txt) This should add more automation to the release cycle.