cockpit-devel September 2020

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Building cockpit fully from source offline
by Ludwig Nussel 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Hi, So far the cockpit packages we have for openSUSE Tumbleweed use the upstream release tarball. That means all web assets are prebuilt. Therefore cannot be patched, it's almost like bundling binaries. So I've tried to come up with a concept to be able to fully rebuild cockpit. In openSUSE a package build is fully unattended, automatic and has no network access. That means all that nodejs stuff needs to be available. When talking to other developers that touched Nodejs before, they just recommended to tar up node_modules/. That's not acceptable either IMO as it also would be just some magic tarball that we don't really know how it was created. So I wrote a PoC tool that parses package-lock.json instead. With that information we know what upstream nodejs modules npm decided to use and where to put them in node_modules/. That way we can have a spec file that refers to all upstream sources properly and rebuild node_modules/ from sources. Here's the tool: https://github.com/lnussel/nodejs-tarballs And how cockpit it built in OBS: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:lnussel:branches:systemsmanage… The madness comes from the huge amount of tarballs. Apart from that looks quite straight forward, doesn't it? :-) The most annoying bit to fix was gyp as it tries to download nodejs header files at build time. Sass also needs a patch as it doesn't compile. ATM those patches have to be duplicated in cockpit modules that are separate such as cockpit-podman. Also, cockpit-podman wants to use bits of cockpit (pkg/lib/patternfly) and the Makefile gets that from git if not present. So I had to create a cockpit-devel subpackage that can be consumed by cockpit-podman. Would that be something to consider for upstream too? Ie install those files and probably a pkgconfig file in cockpit, then check for that in the Makefiles of modules? cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer HRB 36809 (AG Nürnberg)

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Development of web applications around Cockpit API
by Vinícius Ferrão 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Hello, I’m developing an application around Cockpit with my colleagues and I was wondering if there’s a way to consume Cockpit without our application being a plugin inside the Cockpit interface. Our application is something like an HPC Cluster Manager, so it makes total sense to use Cockpit as the basis, there’s a lot of functionality built in, and the upstream development is just awesome. But as per consumer feedback it would be better to have a separate web interface instead of it being a plugin inside the Cockpit web interface. I’m looking through the documentation and there’s the Cockpit API: https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/development.html I see that Cockpit can be embedded entirely in an external application, but this is not what we really want to do. We want to do a new web interface, using IBM’s Carbon design guidelines with HPC in mind and not the system being managed, which is the vision of Cockpit as is. There’s this Deep Integration on the documentation and I think what we need is just this, but the documentation is lacking. The point is: as today, is it viable to consume Cockpit with its API’s in a totally different frontend interface? So I can use things like: authentication, performance graphs, dashboards, user creation, logging, console terminal, etc? Regards,

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Cockpit 228 released
by Katerina Koukiou 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 228: https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-228.html <https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-227.html> Summary: - Accounts: Allow setting weak passwords - Changes to remote host logins - Machines: Add support for reverting to and deleting VM snapshots - Drop cockpit-docker code You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 228 is available in Fedora 32 and 33: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-d185b2afc0 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-f617c3f387 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/228 <https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/227> Take care, Katerina

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Cockpit 227 released
by Martin Pitt 04 Sep '20

04 Sep '20

Bcc: rhel-devel(a)redhat.com, cyborg(a)redhat.com Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 227: https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-227.html Summary: - Machines: Virtual machine list filtering - Continued PatternFly 4 migration You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 227 is available in Fedora 32 and 33: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-5dc4f5b8f5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-02c8c858ae Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/227 Take care, Martin Pitt

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