Can't find installer bundle

[lukpueh]

I wonder if the CIB installation docs are misleading. When I setup the CIB django app as suggested I get the following error when I try to download the installer:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/cib/custominstallerbuilder/html/static/installers/base/seattle_linux.tgz'

As far as I understand the custom installer bundle is created by common/packager.py which builds/packages it from the base installer at BASE_INSTALLER_ROOT -- a default setting found in settings_base.py that points to the directory seen in the error message above.

The docs don't mention to change this setting. But they do suggest to install the base installers at /var/www/dist this section.

Am I missing something?

[aaaaalbert]

You don't seem to be missing anything (apart from the correct information at the correct place, of course!)

/var/www/dist is indeed the "magic" / historic / agreed upon home directory for base installers. They'll actually end up below that in installers/base_installers IIRC, and the generated installers are cached in installers/RANDOM_HASH_ID.

In general you are free to choose whatever base installer dir. You are right that the CIB docs page should mention this, and so should the infrastructure architecture page.

[aaaaalbert]

Speaking with @lukpueh we arrived at the conclusion that the underlying problem is a synchronization issue between documentation and implementation currently. The docs assume "the old way" of building installers that used a specific build shellscript. Current and future CIBs however use @XuefengHuang's Python port of this script which internally assumes a certain dir layout pre-generated by the new Seattle buildscripts in order to work.

In other words, the CIB docs must be adapted to a significant degree. See SeattleTestbed/docs#15.