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On 26/11/18 08:11, Fabian Groffen wrote [as excerpted]: |
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> Hi Sam, |
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> On 26-11-2018 15:02:26 +1100, Sam Pfeiffer wrote: |
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>> With Azure announcing unlimited minutes on CI/CD for open source projects: |
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>> [4]https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-pipelines-with-unlimited-ci-cd-minutes-for-open-source/ |
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>> Even bootstrapping Gentoo prefix, with pieces of software like gcc taking very |
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>> long to compile, is possible. |
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> I'm still missing the infra to administer this, but I have a wrapper |
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> script to bootstrap-prefix.sh (I'm sure others (haubi?) have too) to do |
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> an unattended bootstrap. I want this to run automatically on some boxes |
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> I have, but some of them will take several days to complete. |
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> Another thing is for a bootstrapped prefix to periodically emerge --sync |
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> and emerge -Dua world. Add on top of that detecting which packages have |
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> keywords for said prefix and installing them, and we should be able to |
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> be notice breakage rather sooner than later. |
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From what I have observed, breakage seems to be undesirably frequent, and |
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there are regularly users in #gentoo-prefix on IRC complaining that |
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bootstrap-prefix.sh fails. |
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I'm sure that if native Gentoo hardware isn't available, it should be |
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possible to approach OSL or other providers (I, myself, am using |
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IntegriCloud for powerpc development) to sponsor a host, and/or put |
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together a funding bid to the Trustees (there is capital available). |
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TL;DR I don't think "ENOINFRA" is a particularly good excuse in this |
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day-and-age of cloud-based solutions. |
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Let us help you, and perhaps we can get the very popular Gentoo Prefix onto |
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a slightly firmer footing! :) |
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Best Regards, |
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Michael "veremitz" Everitt. |
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