[arch-general] Question about automated builder

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Nicolás Reynolds <fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar>wrote:

> 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? :)
>
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Yes, there sure is, there is a lot of backend code that I am working on, but
this is coming along!

I am still as much as a few months out from having it production ready, and
I am a few weeks away from initial functionality testing.

here is the github repo:

https://github.com/thatch45/Quarters