There are two ways to bootstrap a Bodhi development environment. You can use Vagrant, or you can use virtualenv on an existing host.

To use Vagrant, please read the instructions at https://pagure.io/fedora-apps-vagrantfiles/blob/master/f/bodhi/README.md

The code from your development host will be mounted in /vagrant in the guest, and you can run the unit tests with nosetests:

cd /vagrant
nosetests

Virtualenv is another option for building a development environment.

sudo dnf install libffi-devel openssl-devel koji pcaro-hermit-fonts freetype-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel python-pillow

sudo dnf -y install python-virtualenvwrapper python-createrepo_c

Add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
source /usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Add the following to your ~/.bashrc

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/.virtualenv

Then on the terminal

source ~/.bashrc

git clone https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi.git
cd bodhi

./bootstrap.py
workon bodhi-python2.7

python setup.py develop

pip install psycopg2

python setup.py test

curl -O https://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/infra/db-dumps/bodhi2.dump.xz
sudo -u postgres createdb bodhi2
xzcat bodhi2.dump.xz | sudo -u postgres psql bodhi2

Copy development.ini.example to development.ini:

cp development.ini.example development.ini

Now adjust the configuration key sqlalchemy.url to point to the postgresql database. Something like:

sqlalchemy.url = postgresql://postgres:anypasswordworkslocally@localhost/bodhi2

pserve development.ini --reload

dnf install postgresql-server

As a privileged user on a Fedora system run the following:

sudo postgresql-setup initdb

As a privileged user on a Fedora system modify the pg_hba.conf file:

vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

Then adjust the content at the bottom of the file to match the following.

# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     peer
# IPv4 local connections are *trusted*, any password will work.
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
# IPv6 local connections are *trusted*, any password will work.
host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust

If you need to make other modifications to postgresql please make them now.

As a privileged user on a Fedora system run the following:

sudo systemctl start postgresql.service