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• OPTIONAL:
  
  • clone the puppet image as democontent-YYMMDD
• Register the archivist1@example.com user in Avalon, and log in as that user.
  
  • this account is removed when the system is prepared for delivery.

• Get the demo fixtures bundle

  Code Block
  cd /tmp wget http://avalonmediasystem.org/downloads/DemoFixturesBatch.tar.gz tar xvzf DemoFixturesBatch.tar.gz chown -R avalondrop.dropbox DemoFixturesBatch mv DemoFixturesBatch /var/avalon/dropbox

  Monitor progress at http://<whatever>:18080 or within Avalon.

• Modify /var/www/avalon/current/app/views/catalog/_home_text.html.erb and replace sample content with something like:

  Code Block
  language html/xml
  <ul class="thumbnails"> <li class="span3"><h5>Featured Video</h5><a href="<%= media_object_path('avalon:1') %>" class="thumbnail" ><%= image_tag "DemoFixturesThumbnails/400x300/organScreenshot.jpg", alt: "Featured Video" %></a></li> <li class="span3"><h5>Featured Video</h5><a href="<%= media_object_path('avalon:2') %>" class="thumbnail" ><%= image_tag "DemoFixturesThumbnails/400x300/lunchroom_manners.jpg", alt: "Featured Video" %></a></li> <li class="span3"><h5>Featured Audio</h5><a href="<%= media_object_path('avalon:3') %>" class="thumbnail" ><%= image_tag "DemoFixturesThumbnails/400x300/gustav_mahler.jpg", alt: "Featured Audio" %></a></li> </ul>

  Thumbnail images can be downloaded from http://avalonmediasystem.org/downloads/DemoFixturesThumbnails.tar.gz and should be unpacked into /var/www/avalon/current/app/assets/images.  The values "avalon:1" to "avalon:3" should be changed to the appropriate container IDs.

• Reload the avalon application by running

  Code Block
  touch /var/www/avalon/current/tmp/restart.txt

  and verify the changes are correct.

• Fix the section titles of the audio example:

  • edit the item

  • click on the "Manage Files" tab
  • change the filenames to "CD 1" (for agz3068a.wav) and "CD 2" (for agz3068b.wav)
  • click Save
• Fix access permissions on all three items:
  
  • edit each item
    
    • click on the "Access Control" tab
    • click on the "Available to the general public" radio button
    • click Save
    • Click the 'Publish" button if it is available on the item view (Lunchroom Manners).

• Remove source data

  Code Block
  rm /tmp/DemoFixturesBatch.tar.gz rm -rf /var/avalon/dropbox/DemoFixturesBatch

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• OPTIONAL:
  
  • clone the latest democontent image as dist-YYMMDD
• Install avalon-vm-1.0-1.noarch.rpm to install the firstboot changes and tools
  
  • Binary Package:  http://avalonmediasystem.org/downloads/avalon-vm-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  • Source Package: http://avalonmediasystem.org/downloads/avalon-vm-1.0-1.src.rpm
• Prepare the disk for compacting

  • clean up anything that's left over from the build process

    Code Block
    rm -rf /root/Downloads/* /var/avalon/dropbox/* /home/makerpm/rpmbuild /opt/staging yum clean all swapoff /dev/mapper/vg_avalon-lv_swap; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/vg_avalon-lv_swap bs=1M; mkswap /dev/mapper/vg_avalon-lv_swap

  • deleted files still take up space on the disk image.  Write a big zero file to clear out that unused data

    Code Block
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1M count=819216384 oflagsoflag=direct; sync; rm /tmp/foo

• run /usr/share/avalon/dist-prep to prepare the machine for release
• clear the command line history  (history -ccw)
• shutdown the VM
• Compact the disk image
  

  • On the host run:

    Code Block
    VBoxManage modifyhd avalon-vm-disk-YYMMDD.vdi --compact

• Export the appliance
  
  • use a 0.9 version OVA
  • use a MANIFEST
• copy the OVA to the distribution point

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