[csw-maintainers] Buildbot

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Peter FELECAN<pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
> "Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Peter FELECAN<pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> "Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> - buildbot can handle parallel builds on the buildfarm, by running
>>>> different builds in different subdirectories
>>>
>>> This should be done on a different system than that used for day to day
>>> work. I don't want to be penalised by gcc, OpenOffice and other monsters
>>> being built the same time that I wish to build a new package.
>>
>> I see two potential solutions:
>>
>> 1. Provide separate hardware for the buildbot
>
> +1 (I know, I'm not paying the bill) and please, not a zone or a VM on
>   the same hardware...
>
>> 2. Avoid building certain blacklisted packages. Optional: schedule
>> periodic or nightly builds for those packages.
>
> -1 as it defeats the purpose; in addition, there is no night for an
>   international community as ours...

Automatic builds for some packages are better than automatic builds
for no packages, so it doesn't defeat the purpose completely. Also, we
could do actual measurements: how big is the impact on the
performance?

>>>> - buildbot automatically picks up changes from the repository, there's
>>>> no hand-scheduling needed
>>>
>>> This is true only for "garified" packages. Is there a plug-in for other
>>> kind of build?
>>
>> Can you come up with an example of a different build? Where would the
>> source code come from?
>
> All my packages are outside gar. The source code comes from my home
> directory...

How would you make your source code available to buildbot?

Maciej