checklist for doing a release: 1. Check weewx.conf for local changes. In particular, check to make sure: 1. debug=0 in weewx.conf 2. Make sure the version is correct 1. modify pyproject.toml 2. make version 3. Make sure all changes have been logged 1. doc_src/changes.md 2. doc_src/upgrade.md 4. Build the documentation 1. make build-docs 5. Create the packages 1. make src-tarball 2. make pypi-package 3a. make debian-changelog 3b. make debian-package-via-vagrant GPG_KEYID=xxx 3c. make apt-repo-via-vagrant GPG_KEYID=xxx 4a. make redhat-changelog 4b. make redhat-package-via-vagrant GPG_KEYID=xxx 4c. make yum-repo-via-vagrant GPG_KEYID=xxx 5a. make suse-changelog 5b. make suse-package-via-vagrant GPG_KEYID=xxx 5c. make suse-repo-via-vagrant GPG_KEYID=xxx 6. Check each installation method 1. do a git install + upgrade 2. do a pip install + upgrade 3. do a debian install + upgrade 4. do a redhat install + upgrade 7. Commit and tag 1. git commit -m "Version X.Y.Z" 2. git push 3. git tag vX.Y.Z 4. git push --tags 5. create a release at github.com 8. Upload wheel to pypi.org 1. make release-pypi 9. Upload to weewx.com 1. make upload-docs 2. make stage-all 10. Move files on the server from staging to production 1. make release-all 11. If the minor version changes, update doc links in the website repository 1. change URL= in docs/*.html 2. change version in docs/weedocs.js 3. change symlink docs/latest 12. Announce the release to the weewx user's group. pre-requisites ---------------------------------------------------------------- Building the documentation requires mkdocs, which is installed using pip. Signing packages requires gpg and local copy of private+public keys. Verifying the packages requires rpmlint/lintian. The debian repo management requires aptly. The redhat repo management requires createrepo. The suse repo management requires createrepo. To build the docs: pip3 install --user mkdocs pip3 install --user mkdocs-material To build pypi package install the following (see the pypi section): pip3 install --user poetry To build debian package install the following (use 'apt install'): git rsync gpg debhelper lintian aptly only needed if you will create and update repositories To build redhat package install the following (use 'yum install'): git rsync gnupg rpm-build rpm-sign rpmlint rpmdevtools createrepo_c only needed if you will create and update repositories To build suse package install the following (use 'zypper install'): git rsync rpm-build rpmlint createrepo_c only needed if you will create and update repositories howto ------------------------------------------------------------------------- how to update the version number: Change the version number in pyproject.toml make version # this propagates the version number everywhere git commit -a -m "bump to version x.y.z" git tag vx.y.z git push --tags how to build wheel and source tarball: make pypi-package how to build debian package: make debian-changelog emacs pkg/debian/changelog # add package-specific changes, if any git commit -m "update deb changelog" pkg/debian/changelog make debian-package how to build redhat package: make redhat-changelog emacs pkg/changelog.el # add package-specific changes, if any git commit -m "update redhat changelog" pkg/changelog.el make redhat-package how to build redhat package: make suse-changelog emacs pkg/changelog.suse # add any package-specific changes, if any git commit -m "update suse changelog" pkg/changelog.suse make suse-package how to build redhat packages with custom rpm revision: make redhat-changelog RPMREVISION=2 make redhat-package RPMREVISION=2 make pull-yum-repo make update-yum-repo RPMREVISION=2 make push-yum-repo make release-yum-repo suse also uses RPMREVISION, but debian uses DEBREVISION. this is useful when there is a change to asset(s) in the packaging, but not part of weewx itself. how to install using pip: make pypi-package pip install dist/weewx-x.y.z-py3-none-any.whl weectl station create how to install/remove debian: apt-get install weewx # install with apt apt-get remove weewx # remove with apt apt-get purge weewx # purge removes /etc/weewx and debconf settings dpkg -i weewx_x.y.z-r.deb # install (apt-get install weewx) # finish install if dependencies failed dpkg -r weewx # remove dpkg -P weewx # purge how to install/remove redhat: yum install weewx-x.y.z-r.rpm [--nogpgcheck] # install with yum yum remove weewx # remove with yum rpm -i weewx-x.y.z-r.rpm # install with rpm directly rpm -e weewx # remove with rpm how to install/remove suse: zypper install weewx-x.y.z-r.rpm [--nogpgcheck] # install with zypper zypper remove weewx # remove with zypper rpm -i weewx-x.y.z-r.rpm # install with rpm directly rpm -e weewx # remove with rpm to display debconf variables: sudo debconf-show weewx to manually purge debconf variables: echo PURGE | sudo debconf-communicate weewx to sign rpm packages you need .rpmmacros in your home directory: ~/.rpmmacros %_gpg_name YOUR_NAME_HERE to sign the apt Release using key 'XXX': gpg -abs -u XXX -o Release.gpg Release to sign the RPM repository metadata using key 'XXX': gpg -abs -u XXX -o repomd.xml.asc repomd.xml to generate gpg key used for signing packages: gpg --gen-key gpg --list-keys gpg --list-secret-keys to export the text version of a public key: gpg --export --armor > username.gpg.key list keys known by rpm: rpm -q --gpg-pubkey rpm -q --gpg-pubkey --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\t%{SUMMARY}\n' delete keys known by rpm: rpm -e gpg-pubkey-XXXXX build environment ----------------------------------------------------------- The build for each package must be done in the appropriate operating system, and we do not support cross-platform building. For example, to build the debian package you must build on a debian system. There are vagrant files in the weewx source tree to automate the setup of build environments for creating weewx packages. howto: build the documents -------------------------------------------------- Prerequisites: - Python 3.7 or greater, with pip installed - Install mkdocs: python3 -m pip install mkdocs - Install the theme "material" for mkdocs: python3 -m pip install mkdocs-material Steps: - make build-docs howto: build and publish wheels to pypi.org ----------------------------------- Prerequisites: - Python 3.7 or greater, with pip installed - Install poetry: curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - - Get an API token from pypi.org See https://pypi.org/manage/account/token/ - Tell poetry to use it: poetry config pypi-token.pypi pypi-substitute-your-pypi-key Steps: - Build the wheel make pypi-package - Publish to pypi.org make upload-pypi howto: update package repositories -------------------------------------------- There are two repositories for each platform, one for production and one for testing. For example, for debian we have apt and apt-test. When preparing a debian, redhat, or suse package for release, first do testing by installing from a local deb/rpm. When you are ready to release to a repo, the steps are: 1) make pull-xxx-repo - this will copy the production repo to local disk 2) make update-xxx-repo - this will copy staged deb/rpm to local repo, then update repo info and sign with gpg keys 3) make push-xxx-repo - this will copy the local repo to remote test repo 4) make release-xxx-repo - replace production repo with test repo If you are doing alpha or beta releases, you can push those to the remote test repo, but do *not* release them. After doing alpha and/or beta releases, be sure to pull the production repo before you get out of alph/beta, then push to the test repo. Otherwise you risk pushing alpha/beta releases into the production repo, which will break many systems. We must keep alpha/beta releases out of the production repo, since they are not handled properly by some package management software. For example, yum thinks that 5.1.0-b6-1 is newer than 5.1.0. apt repository details -------------------------------------------------------- The weewx DEBs are tightly coupled to the major python version (2 or 3), and the availability of pre-built python modules in the operating system release. This means that the weewx DEBs span not only minor operating system updates, but also major operating system releases. aptly has two different mechanisms for doing a 'publish': switch or update. we use snapshots, and publish using 'publish switch', rather than publishing using a simple 'publish update'. There are two apt repositories: python2 and python3 to do apt repo updates you must first install aptly: https://www.aptly.info/download/ for example, on debian: echo "deb http://repo.aptly.info/ squeeze main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aptly.list wget -qO - https://www.aptly.info/pubkey.txt | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install aptly create local debian repo using aptly: aptly repo create -distribution=squeeze -component=main -architectures=all python2-weewx aptly repo create -distribution=buster -component=main -architectures=all python3-weewx put a bunch of deb files into an empty apt repo: for f in `ls distdir`; do aptly repo add python2-weewx distdir/$f; done create a snapshot: aptly snapshot create python-weewx-x.y.z-n from repo python2-weewx aptly snapshot create python3-weewx-x.y.z-n from repo python3-weewx publish using snapshot: aptly publish -architectures=all snapshot python-weewx-x.y.z-n python2 aptly publish -architectures=all snapshot python3-weewx-x.y.z-n python3 update using 'publish switch': aptly repo add python2-weewx dist/python-weewx_x.y.z-n_all.deb aptly snapshot create python-weewx-x.y.z-n from repo python2-weewx aptly publish switch squeeze python2 python-weewx-x.y.z-n aptly repo add python3-weewx dist/python3-weewx_x.y.z-n_all.deb aptly snapshot create python3-weewx-x.y.z-n from repo python3-weewx aptly publish switch buster python3 python3-weewx-x.y.z-n update using 'publish update': aptly publish repo -architectures=all python2-weewx squeeze aptly repo add python2-weewx dist/squeeze/python-weewx_x.y.z-n_all.deb aptly publish update squeeze python2 aptly publish repo -architectures=all python3-weewx buster aptly repo add python3-weewx dist/buster/python3-weewx_x.y.z-n_all.deb aptly publish update buster python3 clone the published apt repo to local space: mkdir -p ~/.aptly rsync -Oarvz --delete USER@weewx.com:/var/www/html/aptly-test/ ~/.aptly synchronize local aptly changes with the published apt repo: rsync -Oarvz --delete ~/.aptly/ USER@weewx.com:/var/www/html/aptly-test switch from testing to production (this is done at weewx.com): rsync -Oarvz --delete /var/www/html/aptly-test/ /var/www/html/aptly for clients to use an apt repo at weewx.com: curl -s http://weewx.com/keys.html | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb [arch=all] http://weewx.com/apt/ squeeze main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list echo "deb [arch=all] http://weewx.com/apt/ buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/python3-weewx.list yum/zypper repository details ------------------------------------------------- The redhat (yum/dnf) and suse (zypper) repositories have similar structure and behavior, but the RPMs are not interchangeable. In each case, the weewx RPMs are tightly coupled to the major operating system release. The weewx RPMs do *not* track minor or bugfix releases of the operating system. create yum repo: mkdir -p ~/.yum/weewx/{el7,el8,el9}/RPMS update local yum repo with latest rpm: cp *.el7.rpm ~/.yum/weewx/el7/RPMS createrepo -o ~/.yum/weewx/el7 ~/.yum/weewx/el7 cp *.el8.rpm ~/yum/weewx/el8/RPMS createrepo -o ~/.yum/weewx/el8 ~/.yum/weewx/el8 cp *.el9.rpm ~/yum/weewx/el9/RPMS createrepo -o ~/.yum/weewx/el9 ~/.yum/weewx/el9 clone the published yum repo to local space: mkdir -p ~/.yum rsync -Oarvz --delete USER@weewx.com:/var/www/html/yum-test/ ~/.yum synchronize local yum changes with published yum repo: rsync -Oarvz --delete ~/.yum/ USER@weewx.com:/var/www/html/yum-test switch from testing to production (this is done at weewx.com): rsync -Oarvz --delete /var/www/html/yum-test/ /var/www/html/yum notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- there are multiple changelogs: docs/changes.md - definitive changelog for the application pkg/debian/changelog - changes to the debian packaging pkg/changelog.el - changes to the redhat packaging pkg/changelog.suse - changes to the suse packaging the debian changelog *must* have a version number that matches the app version. the redhat package will build if the version numbers do not match. use the redhat-changelog and debian-changelog targets to ensure that changelog versions match the application version for a release. there are many ways to build a debian package. first tried dpkg (uses DEBIAN dir and is fairly low-level) but that does not create changes and source diffs. then dried dpkg-buildpackage (uses debian dir and is higher level) but misses the config and templates. ended up using dpkg-buildpackage with some manual (scripted) file manipulation. prefer to use expressive but no overly verbose output in scriptlets and maintainer scripts. many redhat scriptlets seem to be silent, perhaps only emitting messages when there is a failure. unfortunately, most of our failures have been due to things that we never even predicted, let alone created error traps for. so having output from each step helps us figure out where a failure came from. apparently redhat will add better logging/capture from scriptlets in redhat 10 - the anaconda installer already does a pretty good job of capturing and isolating output from scriptlets, but redhat plans to add similar functionality to dnf in redhat 10. shebang ----------------------------------------------------------------------- both debian and redhat deprecate the use of '/usr/bin/env python' as the shebang - they want a very tight binding to the operating system python as the shebang. in fact, since late 2019 redhat build tools see any shebang other than a tight coupling to the operating system's python as an error and refuse to accept it. however, the bsd platforms prefer this as the shebang, and the other approach fails on bsd. macos uses something else. since weewx5 supports any python 3.6+, older weewx supports python 2.7 and any python 3.5+, weewx does not have to be tightly coupled to any specific python installation on the system. so the source code should use the '/usr/bin/env python' shebang. on platforms that refuse to accept this, the package builder will replace this with whatever that platform will accept. for pip installs, pip does the shebang mangling and sets entry points that are appropriate for its configuration. for everything else, using the env in shebang and making the entry points executable enables either 'python foo.py' or 'foo.py' invocation. defaults ---------------------------------------------------------------------- the /etc/default/weewx plus shell stubs in /usr/bin/wee* is used in deb/rpm installations to provide python flexibility, so that users can use a single weewx installation to experiment with different python versions. this is particularly helpful when running weewx directly from source in a git clone, it also works in the deb/rpm installs where the python is managed separately from the system's python, as well as the non-linux, non-pip installations. unfortunately, this can cause problems during an installation. if the pre/post install scripts invoke /usr/bin/weectl instead of the python code directly, they can end up getting python2 or a python3 that does not have the right modules installed. so maintainer scripts and scriptlets must ensure that they use a known-working python. signing packages -------------------------------------------------------------- gpg is used to sign the deb repository and rpm packages. When signing RPMs, gpg info must match the name and email in the latest package changelog entry. When signing apt Release using aptly, beware that aptly uses the first gpg key that it finds. that might not be what you want. SHA1 is no longer acceptable for signing, so be sure that your gpg keys and the signing command use SHA256 instead. This should be the default when building on redhat9 and later. If it is not the default, then it can be forced with a change to the signing macro in .rpmmacros - add the line --digest-algo sha256 %__gpg_sign_cmd %{__gpg} \ gpg --no-verbose --no-armor \ %{?_gpg_digest_algo:--digest-algo %{_gpg_digest_algo}} \ --no-secmem-warning \ --digest-algo sha256 \ %{?_gpg_sign_cmd_extra_args:%{_gpg_sign_cmd_extra_args}} \ -u "%{_gpg_name}" -sbo %{__signature_filename} %{__plaintext_filename} In the debian world, you sign the repository (specifically the file 'Release'), not the individual .deb files. So if you need to re-sign, you re-build and re-sign the repository; there is no need touch the individual .deb files. Signing is controlled by the -us and -uc options to dpkg-build. If you do not specify those options, then dpkg-build will try to sign the .dsc, .buildinfo, and .changes files. The .deb itself is not signed. SUSE wants you to sign the RPMs as well as the repository metadata. The meta data are in repomd.xml, and a fully signed repository must include the files repomd.xml.asc and repomd.xml.key. So although it is possible to use one key for the meta data and different keys for the RPMs, it is probably best to sign with a single, shared key. On SUSE, zypper keeps the repo information in a local cache /var/cache/zypp/raw init -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the packaged installers, the installer must "do the right thing" with respect to starting, restarting, and enabling the weewxd daemon. This does not necessarily align with platform policies. Fedora docs say that a service may be enabled if it does not alter other services, does not fail, does not require configuration before starting, and does not listen for outside connections. However, some systemd docs say that you should use presets instead of enable/disable, so that 'spin' maintainers can control the app using presets. So depending how you read this, you could argue that weewx could be enabled but not run upon install. Debian just enables and runs everything upon install. The weewx packages *always* enable and *always* run weewx on a new install. On an upgrade, the suse/redhat installer will run weewx if weewx was running before, while the debian installer will always run weewx. This is because we can detect whether weewx was running on suse/redhat, but we cannot on debian. For a new install, we only enable and start the primary unit. For an upgrade, on a system with systemd we remove any sysv bits and migrate them to systemd. On systems with systemd (redhat, suse, debian): - new install - start weewxd - enable weewxd - upgrade from 4.x - remove any SysV scripts - weewxd and weewx-multi - start weewxd (suse/redhat: only if weewxd was already running) - enable weewxd - upgrade from 5.x - start weewxd (suse/redhat: only if weewxd was already running) - enable weewxd On systems with SysV (debian): - new install - start weewxd - enable weewxd - upgrade from 4.x - replace weewx and weewx-multi with weewx - start weewxd - enable weewxd - upgrade from 5.x - start weewxd - enable weewxd unit tests -------------------------------------------------------------------- prerequisites: - python 3.7 - python-usb - pyephem to set up mysql server with user and permissions for testing: make test-setup to run all unit tests: make test (note: do not run this as root) to clean up after running tests: make test-clean guidelines: unit tests should put transient files in /var/tmp/weewx_test testing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- what to test when creating debian and redhat packages: install, upgrade, remove, purge install, modify files, remove install previous release, modify files, upgrade, remove Using pip: - new install to user space make pypi-package pip install dist/weewx-x.y.z-py3-none-any.whl --user weectl station create - upgrade user data modify ~/weewx-data/weewx.conf weectl station upgrade - new install using pip to /opt/weewx make pypi-package sudo pip install dist/weewx-x.y.z-py3-none-any.whl sudo weectl station create /opt/weewx/weewx.conf - upgrade using setup.py to /opt/weewx setup.py install home=/opt/weewx modify /opt/weewx/weewx.conf setup.py install home=/opt/weewx on centos and suse: - new install using rpm rpm -i weewx_x.y.z.rpm - upgrade using rpm rpm -i weewx_r.s.t.rpm rpm -U weewx_x.y.z.rpm - upgrade using rpm with extensions installed rpm -i weewx_r.s.t.rpm wee_extension --install cmon rpm -U weewx_x.y.z.rpm debian: - new install usinb dpkg dpkg -i weewx_x.y.z.deb - upgrade using dpkg take maintainer's version of weewx.conf dpkg -i weewx_r.s.t.deb modify /etc/weewx/weewx.conf dpkg -i weewx_x.y.z.deb - upgrade using dpkg use old version of weewx.conf dpkg -i weewx_r.s.t.deb modify /etc/weewx/weewx.conf dpkg -i weewx_x.y.z.deb - reconfigure using dpkg dpkg-reconfigure weewx all platforms: - installation and removal of extensions weectl extension install https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-cmon/archive/master.zip weectl extension install ~/weewx-data/examples/pmon weectl extension uninstall cmon weectl extension uninstall pmon - reconfigure weectl station reconfigure weectl station reconfigure --driver=weewx.drivers.vantage --no-prompt