[Mageia-sysadm] About build system setup

Mon Nov 1 12:25:02 CET 2010

On Mon, 01 Nov 2010, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
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+> * nicolas vigier (boklm at mars-attacks.org) wrote:
+> > Hello,
+> > 
+> > After some discussions tonight with blino on IRC about build system,
+> > some infos :
+> > 
+> > 
+> >  * On Mandriva build system we had one ~mandrake user doing everything
+> >    (build bots, scheduler, mirrors, sign packages ...). Now we can split
+> >    this to have one user for each task. We can have the following users :
+> >    - buildbot (to run iurt on build nodes)
+> >    - schedbot (youri/ulri/emi)
+> >    - signbot (sign packages)
+> >    However we already have a mirror user on valstar. Is it ok, or should
+> >    we rename it to "mirrorbot" ? Or remove the "bot" suffix from other
+> >    users ?
+> 
+> I created the mirror user to be the owner the mirror tree. The username
+> can be changed, at time it only exists in passwd file to wait ldap,
+> a massive chown() is also still possible (the mirror tree is less than
+> 1MB... at time).
+> 
+> May I also suggest we split 'mirror' user in two part:
+> - one owning the top level tree and "static" data, or data we push
+>   manually (iso, doc, ...)
+> - one having permission on distro then able to redo hdlist and push rpms.
+
+Ok. "mirrorstatic" user for static data pushed manually (or repositories
+that should not change), and "mirrorbot" user for repositories data
+pushed by youri bot ?
+
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