Let me surface a conversation happening elsewhere here, for people interested in building a distibution I've mentioned my toy s390x builder privately to a few people, and have some external private testers; additionally I think I mentioned it on the Marist Linux/IBM list and perhaps here publicly. Someone noticed because I picked up a 'follower' on my twitter progress tool On Wed, 26 May 2010, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010, xxx wrote: > >> On 05/26/2010 03:53 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >>> As to other builders, indeed, I got an email that an >>> unknown person's west coast build bot just started >>> following my toy build builder [for s390x] bot >>> http://twitter.com/buildmonbot >>> http://twitter.com/mrgbuildstatus >> damn, now I *gota* get me one of those! >> >> Sounds like a project for the evening! > more like 5 minutes to get started ... > > I've been tinkering with the 'self-hosting' convergence > progress indicator -- just added a feature for the next > restart of it > > [herrold at ibm bin]$ grep tty *sh > remote-build-try.sh: [ "x${NOTWEET}" != "xy" ] && > echo "disk use at ${DISK} ... bailing" | ttytter -script > remote-build-try.sh: ttytter -script > remote-build-try.sh:[ "x${NOTWEET}" != "xy" ] && echo "new > pass: $LNS candidates " | ttytter -script > remote-build-try.sh: [ "x${NOTWEET}" != "xy" ] && > echo "built $BASN (${COUNTER} of ${LNS}) " | ttytter -script > > ==================== > > [herrold at ibm bin]$ head /usr/local/bin/ttytter > #!/usr/bin/perl -s > ######################################################################### > # > # TTYtter v1.0 (c)2007-2010 cameron kaiser (and contributors). > # all rights reserved. > # http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ > # > # distributed under the floodgap free software license > # http://www.floodgap.com/software/ffsl/ > # -- Russ herrold