Hi Lamar,
Thanks for the update.
On 01/21/2013 04:57 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
up the space heater ^H^H^H buildhost (again, photos of the buildhost can be seen at http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16725868 ).....
Wonder what the electric bill for that is :)
Almost all of the 5.9 GA updated/new packages are built (just a couple of packages are being stubborn, and those have a history of being stubborn, at least on IA64 and on this buildsystem; I'm using smock),
Have you looked at mockchain ?
and I have test-updated the second Altix box to 5.9: CentOS release 5.9 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-348.el5 on an ia64
cool
Third-party repos are also on the plate, since there are several packages we need that are in either EPEL or RepoForge. Those are probably higher on the list than making the build fully self-hosted, really.
One thing that you might run into is that the packagers on those repo's would almost certainly not have been testing builds on IA64, so consider some sort of a feedback loop : maybe even just a http interface to the logs and status ( let apache do the listing with options indexes' turned on ).
But if more were interested in the IA64 build, the priorities could definitely change. Given enough interest, install media would be a logical step, and while that is on my list of things to do, it's not
Happy to promote this build effort a bit and try to drum up support. It would essentially boil down to : if we start it, if we promote it - are we then in a place where we can keep the builds going over a reasonable period of time. If the answer there is, YES, then lets start making the noise.
w.r.t the system updates and tracking that - the buildsystem at this end which does the i686 / x86_64 / powerpc builds is capable of triggers via http call back. If that helps, lets set that up.
Regards,