Setup an OBS Development Environment on macOS

The Open Build Service requires a case-sensitive filesystem. You can check if your Mac uses a case-sensitive filesystem in the Diskutil for example. If not there are a couple of ways to work around this problem. One of them is to create a Apple Disk Image with a case-sensitive filesystem and to run the Open Build Service docker setup from there.

Prerequirements:

• Ruby
• Rake
• GIT
• Docker & Docker-Compose (you can get the stable version through the following link Docker stable for macOS. It already includes docker-compose)

1. Create the Apple Disk Image with a case-sensitive filesystem (in this example 'case-sensitive HFS+')

hdiutil create -megabytes 4096 -fs 'Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+' -volname OBS ./obs.dmg

2. Mount the Apple Disk Image

hdiutil attach ./obs.dmg

The "hdiutil attach" output should show where the image got mounted (usually somewhere in '/Volumes')

/dev/disk9s2    Apple_HFS    /Volumes/OBS

3. Navigate into the mounted Volume

cd /Volumes/OBS

4. Start Docker through the Launchpad. A small docker icon should show up in the systemtray (you can see the current state of the service by clicking on it).

5. Follow the instructions 3-6 from the How to setup an OBS development environment chapter.