February 18, 2016

Run the Workshop as an Appliance on your Raspberry Pi

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When my refrigerator stopped producing cold air and decided to live the simple life of a room temperature box, I cringed at the idea of having to spend the money and shop around for a new one. Well thankfully, not all appliances are so cringeworthy. The Perforce Workshop is a place where developers can share tools (Perforce and non-Perforce alike) and collaborate on projects. There are such occasions where someone might want to have something like the Workshop but as an appliance to use privately. I decided to experiment with this idea for my own personal needs using a Raspberry Pi 2, which at $35 makes for a cheap private appliance.
 
1.) On your Raspberry Pi, run (instructions were tested on a Raspberry Pi 2 running Raspbian Jessie):
 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install -y php5-dev
 
2.) Get the Perforce client, server, C++ API, PHP API and Swarm:
 
wget ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r15.2/bin.linux26armhf/p4
wget ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r15.2/bin.linux26armhf/p4d
wget ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r15.2/bin.linux26armhf/p4api.tgz
wget -O p4php.zip https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce-software-p4php/archives/main.zip
wget ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r15.4/bin.multiarch/swarm.tgz
 
3.) Change permissions on p4 and p4d and move files to bin directory:  
 
chmod +x p4
chmod +x p4d
sudo mv p4 /usr/local/bin
sudo mv p4d /usr/local/bin
 
4.) Start p4d:
 
mkdir /home/pi/p4root
p4d -r /home/pi/p4root -p raspberrypi:1666 -d
 
**NOTE**: This will work locally but replace 'raspberrypi' with the pi's ip address
to access the Perforce server from another machine.
 
5.) Build P4PHP:
 
tar zxvf p4api.tgz
unzip p4php.zip
mv main p4php
cd p4php
phpize
./configure --with-perforce=../p4api-2015.2.1326881 (your version might be different)
make
make test
sudo make install
 
**NOTE**:
In the summary, you should see something like:   
Libraries have been installed in:
   /home/pi/p4php/modules
6.) Add this line to your php.ini file:  
extensions=/home/pi/p4php/modules/perforce.so
**NOTE**: If you've been following the directions, php.ini file should be located here: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
 
7.) Setup Swarm:   
 
tar zxvf swarm.tgz
mv swarm-* swarm
cd swarm
sudo chown www-data data
 
8.) Add this config.php file to $SWARM_HOME/data:  
   <?php
       return array( 
           'p4' => array(
                'port'     => 'raspberrypi:1666',  
                'user'     => 'swarm',  
                'password' => 'password',  
            ),  
            'p4_super' => array(  
                'port'     => 'raspberrypi:1666',  
                'user'     => 'perforce',  
                'password' => 'password',  
            ),  
            'security' => array(  
                'require_login' => false,  
                'disable_autojoin' => true,  
            ),  
            'notifications' => array(  
                'honor_p4_reviews' => true,  
            ),   
            'queue'  => array(  
               'workers'             => 3,    // defaults to 3
               'worker_lifetime'     => 595,  // defaults to 10 minutes (less 5 seconds)
               'worker_task_timeout' => 1800, // defaults  30 minutes
               'worker_memory_limit' => '1G', // defaults to 1 gigabyte
            ),
            'reviews' => array(
                'disable_commit' => false,
            ),
        );
9.) Setup Swarm Triggers:
 
/home/pi/swarm/scripts/swarm-triggers.sh -o > swarm-triggers.txt
p4 -p raspberrypi:1666 triggers -o > default-triggers.txt 
cat default-triggers.txt swarm-triggers.txt > final.txt
p4 -p raspberrypi:1666 triggers -i < final.txt
 
10.) In the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory, edit the file '000-default.conf' with following contents:
<Virtualhost *:80>
    ServerName localhost 
    ErrorLog "/var/log/apache2/swarm_error.log"
    CustomLog "/var/log/apache2/swarm_access.log" common
    DocumentRoot "/home/pi/swarm/public"
    <Directory "/home/pi/swarm/public">
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
11.) Restart Apache
 
sudo apachectl restart
 
Let's try logging into your Swarm instance:
  • Open up a browser and enter 127.0.1.1:80  (or ip address if accessing from another machine)
  • Log into using username: pi (leave password blank)
 
Now that's you've successfully logged in, there are few more things we need to do.
 
12.) Setup the Trigger Token:
  • Click on 'pi' userid (upper right corner) | About Swarm  
  • Copy Trigger Token   
  • Open up the file: /home/pi/swarm/p4-bin/scripts/swarm-triggers.sh  
  • Fill in the values for SWARM_HOST and SWARM_TOKEN:  
SWARM_HOST="http://ip_address/"  
SWARM_TOKEN="Trigger Token you just copied"
12.) Add Workers:
 

crontab -e

Add the following line and exit:

* * * * * wget -q -O /dev/null -T5 http://IP_ADDRESS/queue/worker
13.) Clone and add the Frontpage Workshop module:
 
p4 -u guest -d workshop clone -p workshop.perforce.com:1666 -f //guest/perforce_software/workshop/main/...
cd workshop
cp -r frontpage/* /home/pi/swarm/
sudo apachectl restart
 
**NOTE**: There are other modules that can be added, so feel free to explore them and copy the ones that interest you.

 

Open up a browser and check out your new private Workshop appliance, ready for customization and all your hacking needs.