Re: [gentoo-dev] Open Build Service

[Samuel Bernardo]

Hi,


On 11/14/2017 03:04 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> The biggest issue you will have with doing these types of builds,
> though, is dealing with the various use flag differences that various
> consumer systems may have.  From what little I've played with binary
> builds, if you want to offer binpkg's for an entire system set you
> pretty much have to synchronize all use flags across all systems.  So
> a realistic deployment will essentially require (a) adherence to a
> specific set of static profiles, or (b) a nearly-infinitely-growing
> number of build profiles that match each permutation of global and
> per-package use flag settings that your consumers would have.
Just like you described. There will be a profile for each system
environment and that would be integrated in CI/CD using OBS for my
proposed use case. Use flags will be optimized for each case only
possible with a powerful distribution like Gentoo :P

Obviously that creating a new profile would need a strong requirement
for that ;)

That's why I think the effort for maintaining profiles would be awesome
with the idea proposed by Michael Haubenwallner, with the "Social Linux
Distribution Network" sharing Gentoo user's profile
setups - with the cache for binary packages to be optional. So the OBS
reference in this context would be the profile and the binary repository
as optional.
The open-source development way of systems described by the schema
"profile" would be the next step. Containers or appliances cloud be
defined this way for complex deployments.

Thanks ;)