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Hi Vadim, |
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> Finally it happened! |
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> I already planned to try to ask infra/council about sponsoring few |
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> servers for build farm for "official gentoo binhosts" when I had |
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> enough time, but fortunately, you've already did that. |
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> It's very good news. |
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Thanks! Nice to see that this is appreciated :) |
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So far I'm only using "spare time" on the machine that builds the |
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releng stages (amd64, x86, m68k, riscv). So no need for a big server |
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farm. |
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> Btw, do you need any help with that? |
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> I'd be very happy to help with that project. |
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Sure! Feel free to add yourself to the Project:Binhost wiki page. I'll |
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ask for an alias and a channel soon. |
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The most useful steps now are only half related to actual building. I |
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barely know any python and am not very familiar with portage |
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internals... this is what in my opinion we'd need next: |
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1) a tool to manage and manipulate a binpkg/ directory tree |
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The main functions that I see needed are |
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* delete packages/versions that are not in the gentoo repository |
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anymore (xpak and in index file), maybe with some grace time |
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* merge xpak files built elsewhere into the directory (also in the |
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index file) |
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(imagine you have a second container that builds with same CFLAGS, but |
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with use settings for gnome, not plasma... or with updated |
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dependencies because of changes in gentoo.git... you want to merge the |
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trees for distribution without having duplicate builds) |
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2) binary package cryptographic signing and verification |
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Essentially we need to finish support for GLEP78; this is being worked |
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on in RinCat's pull request |
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https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/562 |
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See also https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html |
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3) an easy way to figure out if a binary package repo is suitable for |
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a profile / arch / ... or not, and a standard for path names |
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This is not so important right now, and partially also already present |
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I guess. |
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The actual builder right now is very simple and wired up with a single |
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daily cron job; the mirrors are only updated manually by me until bug |
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813528 is handled. |
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Cheers |
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Andreas |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |
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