replacement builder needed

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:25 PM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On 24/10/11 05:02, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm sure there are some technical hurdles but a distributed approach
>>> may keep us from having to come up with a dedicated builder.
>>> 
>>> What does everyone think?
>> 
>> I wouldn't mind doing so, but I don't think the machine side is that hard
>> from the sound of it. More problematic is how to provide enough bandwidth,
>> and total usage. Do we have a feel for the BW / monthly data usage side of
>> the equation ?
> 
> I have no idea... I know on the download side my 3MB DSL seems to be
> "enough". I do a lot of test building in mock and it does a good job
> of caching packages. On the upload side though It's pretty bad.
> 384Kbit, and I can only allow about 200Kbit or DNS resolving gets VERY
> slow.

Well, there really isn't *that* much to upload, so even if its slow, meh. At least,
that's my take right now. I don't really have any idea how much there is to
upload though, or how long it takes. I haven't had any network issues that
resulted from it, but my uplink speed is several orders of magnitude higher
than 384Kbps.


> If we can get distributed building working though, I might be willing
> to upgrade my service a bit.
> 
> I'm proposing we start working on a package, called something like
> "rpmfusion-builder" to make setting things up as easy as possible.
> 
> Can someone (Jarod?) reply with a summery of what's involved in setting one up?

Can't entirely recall. There's not a huge amount to it though. Its a fairly
minimal el6 install, add plague, koji and mock, and configure them (along
with the necessary firewall holes for the plague and koji client daemons).

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Jarod Wilson
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