El 27/01/11 10:36, Thomas S Hatch dijo: > I have mentioned this subject before on aur-general, but I wanted to open a > discussion about it in the broader community. > > I have spent a great deal of my career working with Red Hat Linux, as have > many in the professional Linux world, and there is one project that is > amazingly useful for the Red Hat world, and that is Koji. > > You can take a look at the web interface for koji here: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ > > Basically, koji acts as a continuous build server for the fedora project's > rpms. it has a number of benefits, one is that all of the building is done > in a controlled environment, so we have a %100 assurance that the packages > makedepends are correct, and and the packages are all built inside of clean > chroots. > > Koji also allows for very simple mass-rebuilds of packages, since all anyone > needs to do it increment the release number and koji can pick up the change > and build the package. > > I have been passively working on a similar project called quarters, but I > must admit that my motivation is somewhat low not knowing if the project is > in demand. So here is my question, do we think that something like this > would be a benefit to Arch? Is this the type of project that should merit my > attention? > > Also, if we do think that this would be a good thing to have for Arch, I > would like feedback on what types of features the system would have and how > it would behave. Right now I am following the idea of supporting a > distributed build system so that we can have any number of build servers in > the fray working away to produce Arch packages for us. I am also attempting > to build it in such a way that a database is not required and that the > interface would be amazingly simple (this is Arch after all). This would > mean that by mearly checking into svn a package would be built, and then an > interface would pop up for the right people to sign it off, and once it has > been signed off it would move over. > > Or at least that is the basic idea I am running on. The code has not come > very far, but if the Arch community and developers think that this is a good > idea then please let me know, my motivation should soar and I will make Arch > a super continuous package build system! > > -Thomas S Hatch > -TU > Hi, is there any progress on this? :) -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:fauno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx omb:http://identi.ca/fauno blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/ gnu/linux user #455044 OTR: C0CB1F0F 01DB5E18 2D634C2A A4626858 E7C7C3A2 http://parabolagnulinux.org http://endefensadelsl.org
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