BMO/DeveloperBox

Creating a BMO Development System using VirtualBox and Vagrant

• Install Virtualbox on your workstation (http://www.virtualbox.org)
• Install Vagrant on your workstation (http://www.vagrantup.com/)
• Creating your VM from the BMO base vbox
  • Note: ~7G download (the base vbox has a recent sanitized copy of BMO)

 vagrant init
 vagrant box add bmo https://people.mozilla.com/~dkl/latest.box

• Edit Vagrantfile to allow port forward to VM of port 80
  • TODO: Figure out what needs to be done to have this in the base vbox instead

of requiring user to do it.

 Uncomment the line that says (according to version):
 Version 1.0.x:
 # config.vm.forward_port 80, 8080
 Version 1.1.x:
 # config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 8080

 In the line
 config.vm.box = "base"
 Change "base" to "bmo"

• Starting the VM

 vagrant up

• Logging into the VM

 vagrant ssh

• Make yourself an admin and set your password (substitute your bmo address below)

 vagrant ssh
 cd htdocs/bmo
 ./checksetup.pl --make-admin=<email> --reset-password=<email>

• Access the web UI at http://localhost:8080/bmo using your browser
  • You may need to update the values for urlbase and sslbase in /home/vagrant/htdocs/bmo/data/params to match the port number you chose for redirection earlier. If the port is different than 8080.

• Updating the BZR code to the latest revision. Note: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/survival/bzr-for-git-users.html

 vagrant ssh
 cd htdocs/bmo
 bzr merge
 bzr commit  (commit the merged files to your branch?)

• Run tests.
  • perl runtests.pl will run all the tests in the /bmo/t directory
  • you can run just one of the tests in /t, for example, perl t/004template.t will go through all the template tests.

• Making a patch for review of your latest changes
  • (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Patches)
  • This will place the patch file in your home directory of the laptop and not on the VM

so you can easily upload, etc.

 bzr diff > /vagrant/<some_patch_name>_1.patch