[Mageia-dev] Will this work for a build system?

Sat Sep 25 18:06:33 CEST 2010

Le samedi 25 septembre 2010 à 10:08 -0500, R James a écrit :
+> Hello Mageia Development Team,
+> 
+> I have a VM resource that I'd like to provide in the U.S. as a build
+> system if you think its acceptable:
+> 
+> Physical Hardware:
+> Dell PowerEdge T300 with Intel Quad Core Xeon E5410 2.33GHz (64-bit,
+> VT capable).
+> 24GB RAM
+> 2TB storage via hardware RAID6
+> 
+> Virtual Machine:
+> I've created a VM using KVM which allocates 2 CPUs and 8GB RAM.  There
+> are 3 LVM virtual disks for /, swap and /var (or whatever) that are
+> free to grow within their 1TB volume group.
+> 
+> If you need 2 VMs (ie: for 32-bit and 64-bit) I can provide another
+> with 2 CPUs and 4GB RAM but I'll need to split the 1TB volume group
+> into two.
+> 
+> Bandwidth from ISP is marginal.  10Mb down, 2Mb up.  I think 10Mb down
+> is their limit but I'll see if they can increase the upload speed...
+> 
+> I know nothing about creating a build server so I'm willing to learn
+> or simply provide Magia development root access to the VM(s).
+> 
+> If you think this can be useful, I'll add it to the Hardware Resources
+> section of the wiki.  If not, I'll set it up as a local Mageia mirror.
+
+Thanks for your offer, but for various reasons and for the moment, we
+think it is better to have everything in the same datacenter. 
+
+Regarding the mirror, I am not sure that the upload is good enough, but
+that's up to you.
+
+Regarding a buildserver, it is not more complex than a calcul cluster.
+There is some videos on the subject for Opensuse Build System, and for
+the Bodhi and Koji from Fedora. You can also look at Mandriva wiki
+( like
+http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Packaging/BuildSystem/Analysis
+even if obsolete regarding exact implementation, this provides a good
+analysis ). 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+