README

This README is intentionally brief.

All the details on the Bytemark Symbiosis packages may be found online:

http://symbiosis.bytemark.co.uk/

Building The Packages

The minimum packages needed to get the build process working are:

rake devscripts rdoc graphviz

You should be able to build all packages via :

rake repo

This will generate all files and copy them to a subdirectory of 'repo/'. Each package has its own dependency requirements and the build will fail if these are not met.

Using schroot/sbuild/sautobild

It is possible to build the packages using per-arch/distro chroots. Bytemark have written a package called "sautobuild" which can perform automated builds of a source package, given a set of schroots.

Other rake tasks

There are other rake tasks that can be seen by running

rake -T

API Documentation

There is plenty of documentation in the Ruby libraries written for Symbiosis. Rdoc is used to generate it as part of the symbiosis-api-doc package. If you run

rake rdoc

This will generate it in doc/html.

-- Patrick J Cherry patrick@bytemark.co.uk