On Mon, 29 May 2017 12:01:32 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-ot...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>On 29/05/17 11:12, Bo Berglund wrote: > >> Testing--------So I thought that one way to go forward was for me to use an >> RPi3 boxas a repository server with GIT or whatever (seems like the >> CVSsuccessor SVN is now also on the decline...).Is there a good way to set >> up an RPi3 box as a GIT server and getgoing with that? >> Can GIT work in a way that would be comparable to CVS regardingconcurrent >> development etc? >> Any suggestions on where to start? > >Frankly, and after having run an RPi3 as my desktop system for roughly >nine months, I'd not use an RPi for that. I'd use something like an HP >Microserver with at least mirrored discs, and I'd make sure that I was >able to write a consistent snapshot onto something like a USB stick >storage device. > >My recollection is that while you can set up (software-controlled) >mirrored devices on an RPi, you run into problems mounting them at boot >time due to deficiencies in the loader- that was certainly the case when >I looked at it in the latter part of last year, although low-level >firmware improvements (roughly last November) might have fixed some of that. > >In addition, it's becoming increasingly obvious to many people that the >power arrangement is manky, and that you risk permanent damage to an >SDCard if inserting a USB device briefly pushes the voltage out of spec- >see discussion of the vcgencmd command. > >Finally, you /will/ need to backup, and if you've accumulated any amount >of data you really don't want to try doing that through a single >(internal) USB hub with no possibility of expansion. OK, I did not have in mind to use an RPi3 as the final system. I just wanted to acquaint myself with GIT using a small portable unit over the summer. If it did work and I found it useful I would put a Linux server on our VMWare box and use that as the new versioning server. But over the summer I am moving to a place where space is limited and I thought a small box like a Pi3 could work as a test bed. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
