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Developer Documentation

Table of Contents

1. Development Process
   • Coding Style
   • Release Management
     • Code Freeze and Release
     • Release Processes
   • SVN
     • Checkout Instructions
     • Merges
     • Integration with Trac
     • Rollback
2. Preparations
   • Autoinstalling the headnode
   • Build servers at Indiana University
   • OSCAR debug parameters
3. OSCAR infrastructure
   • OSCAR Overview
     • Future & Ongoing Work
     • Architecture
   • OSCAR Packages (opkg)
     • The OPKG API
     • Opkg
     • Packaging for OSCAR
     • PackageInUn (deprecated)
     • OSCAR Package Manger
   • OCA: OSCAR Component Architecture
     • OS_Detect
     • OS_Settings
     • RM_Detect
     • Sanity_Check
   • OSCAR Configuration Files
   • ODA: OSCAR Database
     • Bootstrap
     • Architecture
     • Code Source, Installation and Packaging
     • Maintenance of ODA
   • OPD: OSCAR Package Downloader
     • OPD2 Architecture
   • generic-setup
   • prereqs
   • system-sanity
   • packman
   • OSCAR::PackagePath
   • KernelPicker
   • Switcher
   • SystemInstaller
   • SystemConfigurator
   • Command Line Interface
     • Selector
     • Configurator
     • Install Server RPMs
     • Build Client Image
     • Define OSCAR Clients
     • Setup Networking
     • Complete and Test Cluster Installation
   • Oscar Set Manager
     • Package Set Manager
       • OPKG Versioning
       • Initial Implementation of Package Sets
     • Machine Set Manager
   • RAPT
   • Monitoring Framework
4. Backing up OSCAR (-> this should move to the user/admin docs!)
5. OSCAR Distribution Support
   • Distribution support for new OSCAR releases
   • Porting OSCAR to a new distribution
   • OSCAR binary packages repositories
6. Build system
   • Overview
   • New OSCAR distribution format
7. Build OSCAR packages
   • Building all packages required by OSCAR
   • Building OSCAR meta packages (opkgs)
8. Testing
   • Manual Testing of PVM
   • OscarReleaseTesting
   • Testing of OSCAR trunk
   • Testing the OSCAR version available via our repositories
9. Ongoing work …
   • Roadmap
   • WebORM
   • OSCARonDebian
   • OSCAR Package Compiler (opkgc)