[csw-maintainers] Buildbot

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Peter FELECAN<pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> "Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Peter FELECAN<pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>>> "Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>
>> Maybe. But not on the effective build stack, please.
>
> Where are large packages currently built? I thought that all packages
> must be built on the buildfarm. Next time there's an on-going
> compilation of a large package, we can do the measurements.

Some weeks ago we had I/O issues when gcc3, OpenOffice and Firefox where
built in the same period. What I'm saying, is *automatic build must be
done on a different hardware stack*

>>>>>>> - 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?
>>
>> By pointing it to my home directory on the build stack...
>
> Buildbot has plugins for Subversion, Perforce, Arch, Bazaar, Darcs,
> Mercurial and Git. Do you use any of these for your source code?
>
> Buildbot needs essentially three things:
>
> 1. Build master needs a way to learn about an update to specific
> project or branch
> 2. Build slaves need a way to obtain the source code
> 3. Build slaves need instructions to build the package
>
> Number 1 could be done by... I don't know... making md5 sums of
> specific files in your home directory? Number 2 would be a file copy
> operation. Number 3 would be provided by you. Do your builds have a
> uniform build procedure?

Yes, my packages have an uniform and automatic packaging system.

> The GAR packages will be the main focus now, since they comprise about
> 91% builds (that I know of, that is, ~1083 out of ~1186). Once we're
> there, we can extend support to other build sources. Of course, it
> would make it easier to implement if a code repository was available
> to buildbot.

Are you sure for the figures above?
-- 
Peter