Gbib development

This page is for developers, it's not relevant for QA.

Development can happen on the devbox, a development version of the browserbox with git, gcc etc. For testing during development, a special command on the box can pull in the CGIs that were compiled on the devbox.

You can start and stop browserbox-dev with the aliases devStart and devStop. Browserbox-dev listens at 1236 for web requests and at 1237 for ssh.

All virtual machines live in qateam/VirtualBox VMs/. The central virtualbox xml config file where they are registered is ~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml

start browserbox-dev:

 devStart

connect + git pull + compile:

 ssh devbox
 compileCgis

You can now test the CGIs on port 1236 of hgwdev. You can also hack on the /home/browser/kent directory and e.g. run makes in there.

To do a more realistic test, the alpha binaries can also be put into the final browserbox.

To copy the alpha binaries into the browserbox: Copy them from devbox to alpha distribution rsync server directory (this command is defined in qateam's .bashrc) by running this command as qateam:

 boxUpdateAlpha

Now start the box and pull the alpha binaries from the rsync server:

 boxStart
 ssh box
 updateBrowser alpha

You can now use the alpha CGIs on port 1234 of hgwdev.

When you're done: stop the development box:

 devStop