Building From Source

Prepare the Server

Stacki can either be built on an existing Stacki Frontend, or on the fresh install of a CentOS or SLES machine. Ensure you have an adequate amount of space to build, somewhere on the order of 10GB.

Frontend Server

If you are using a Stacki Frontend as your build host you will need to add an OS pallet to configure the local software repositories. This is required as a default Stacki install will build a Frontend with only a minimal OS pallet missing many of the prerequisites for building Stacki.

CentOS Frontend

Download CentOS 7.4.

# stack add pallet CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1708.iso
# stack enable pallet CentOS
# stack disable pallet os

SLES Frontend

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Freshly Installed Server

CentOS

Start with a fresh install of CentOS 7.4 using the default "minimal" package selection. You should also configure the network to have access to remote yum repositories.

SLES

Start with a fresh install of SLES 12, using the default desktop/workstation pattern. If you do not have access to the remote SLES zypper repositories, you need to add the install ISO and the first SDK ISO as repos.

zypper ar iso:/?iso=/export/SLE-12-SP2-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso install_dvd
zypper ar iso:/?iso=/export/SLE-12-SP2-SDK-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso sdk_dvd

Grab the Source

Log into your build server and checkout the repository somewhere in /export (its a large repo). Install git, if it isn't already on your system.

# mkdir /export/src
# cd /export/src
# git clone git@github.com:Teradata/stacki.git

Note: These instructions assume you have commit access to the Teradata/stacki.git repository, if you do not please fork the repository first, and then clone from your fork.

Bootstrap and Build

# cd /export/src/stacki/centos (or sles)
# make bootstrap

This will complete and tell you to log out and log in again, follow the directions and then restart the bootstrap. You can skip the log out/log in by running source /etc/profile.d/stack-build.sh.

# cd /export/src/stacki/centos (or sles)
# make bootstrap
# make
# make manifest-check

This should leave you with a .iso file in the build directory, and the manifest-check should report all the packages were built.

Contribute Code

If you've made changes that you want to share with all of Stacki send us a pull request.