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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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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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eclean packages from gentoolkit does this exactly. |
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