ansible-gimp-dependencies's Introduction

DEPRECATED

This project has been migrated to GNOME GitLab under World/gimp-ci. Refer to the documentation repository for better information. If you just want to build GIMP, then check out the GIMP development environment based on Docker. The Docker environment also allows you to run GIMP if you have Xorg display; instructions therein.

GIMP dependencies role

In Debian, this ansible role will:

Convert Debian Jessie to Debian Testing by modifying /etc/apt/sources.list
Perform an apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade the OS to Debian Testing.
Install prerequisite packages for building GIMP.

Requirements

Debian Jessie or Debian Stretch/Testing (WARNING: this will convert Debian Jessie to Debian Testing)
Python 2.7 - https://www.python.org/ - scripting language used by Ansible and Molecule.
Vagrant - https://www.vagrantup.com/ - VirtualBox provisioning layer.
VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/ - Virtualization software.
Virtualenv - https://virtualenv.pypa.io/ - user-managed python environment which simplifies development.

This role was last tested on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS with the following versions:

Python 2.7.12
Vagrant 1.8.6
VirtualBox 5.0.24_Ubuntur108355
Virtualenv 15.0.1

Role Variables

No configurable role variables. See vars/main.yml for a list of static variables.

Dependencies

No additional Ansible dependencies.

Example Playbook

Usage in a playbook includes:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - ansible-gimp-dependencies

Getting Started

To start testing out this role:

git clone https://github.com/gimp-ci/ansible-gimp-dependencies.git
cd ansible-gimp-dependencies
virtualenv --python=$(type -p python2.7) .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -U pip
pip install -r test-reqs.txt
#now ready for development or running
molecule create
molecule converge

molecule create will create a VM based on Debian Jessie. molecule converge will execute this ansible role to perform all of the tasks defined in tasks/main.yml.