Add A Package

To add a new top level package, (i.e. like ScienceTools, GlastRelease, etc) all that needs to be done is to add a new entry into the package database.  This will cause the specified packageName to appear in the various tools such as the Release Manager web pages and the RMViewer program and allow the name to be used in the various RM programs such as deletedBuild and triggerBuild.

The following command,

INSERT INTO package VALUES ('<packageID>','<packageName>');

should be sufficient to create the new entry where <packageID> is the value for the new package ID number (the next one should be 6), and <packageName> is the name you want the package to have, i.e. ScienceTools, GlastRelease, etc, in the RM

However, all this does is create the name and ID for the package that the RM will use.  You can't actually create any build packages until you set up a build package configuration (see below)

Add An Operating System

Adding a new operation system is similar to adding a package.  You simply create a new entry for the new operating system in the os table.  Like adding an entry to the package table, all this really does is create the names and ID for the operating system to be used by the various RM systems.  To actually enable a build in the new OS, you need to create a build package configuration (see below).

The following command,

INSERT INTO os VALUES ('<osId>','<osName>','<osType>','<nickname>','true');

should be sufficient to create the new entry.  See the os database table description for the details of the values of the various parameters.

Add A Build Package Configuration

In order to actually create a build using a new OS or a new package, you have to first create a build package configuration in the settings database table.  A build package configuration corresponds to a unique combination of packageId, osId, variantId, and versionTypeId.  For each variation in any one of those ID values, you need a separate set of settings table entries.  If you are just adding an OS to an existing package, you have to create about 19 entries per build package in the table.  If you are adding a new package, there are a few additional entries, which apply across OSes and variants (but are unique the the different versionTypes) , that you also need to add.

Note: Sample scripts that have been used to add these settings to the database for various packages and OSes can be found in the sql-scripts directory under the home directory of the glastrm account on the central Unix machines at SLAC.

New Package Only Settings

The following table lists the settings table entries (see the Release Manager Settings page for details of the various parameters) that need to be added to the settings database table for a new package.  It lists the setting value name, which versionTypes (Release, ReleaseCandidate, and Integration) they are needed for, and a sample value for Integration (i.e. LATEST) builds.  You can check the values of these settings in the database itself for more examples.

Name	Release	Release Candidate	Integration	Sample Value (Integration)
automaticTrigger				true
checkTime				3600000
cvsPackage				ScienceTools-scons
doxygenLocation				/nfs/farm/g/glast/u35/doxygen/ScienceTools/LATEST-1-${VERSION}
excludeClean				bin,data,exe,include,lib,python,site_scons,xml,sconsTools
initialVersion				(any version number)
keepNumTags				20
maxHasSource				2
maxKeep				20
submitterOs				1
submitterVariant				1
subPackageTagFormat				${PACKAGE}-\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2}$
versionFormat				ScienceTools-LATEST-1-\d+
versionPrepend				ScienceTools-LATEST-1-

= required setting

= optional setting but usually present (see the Release Manager Settings page for setting details and use)

= optional setting but not usually present

General Build Package Settings

The following table shows all the entries that you need for each build package along with some of the optional ones commonly used.  Sample values are provided from the ScienceTools Debug LATEST Mountain Lions builds (the most recent package added).  Again descriptions of what all the settings control can be found on the Release Manager Settings page.

= required setting

= optional setting but usually present (see the Release Manager Settings page for setting details and use)

= optional setting but not usually present

Note:   Many of these settings are the same across all the build packages and could probably have been made generic and only had to have been set once per package+versionType combination but this is the way Navid set it up.