On 26/11/18 08:11, Fabian Groffen wrote [as excerpted]: > Hi Sam, > > On 26-11-2018 15:02:26 +1100, Sam Pfeiffer wrote: >> With Azure announcing unlimited minutes on CI/CD for open source projects: >> >> [4]https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-pipelines-with-unlimited-ci-cd-minutes-for-open-source/ >> >> Even bootstrapping Gentoo prefix, with pieces of software like gcc taking >> very >> long to compile, is possible. > I'm still missing the infra to administer this, but I have a wrapper > script to bootstrap-prefix.sh (I'm sure others (haubi?) have too) to do > an unattended bootstrap. I want this to run automatically on some boxes > I have, but some of them will take several days to complete. > Another thing is for a bootstrapped prefix to periodically emerge --sync > and emerge -Dua world. Add on top of that detecting which packages have > keywords for said prefix and installing them, and we should be able to > be notice breakage rather sooner than later. > From what I have observed, breakage seems to be undesirably frequent, and there are regularly users in #gentoo-prefix on IRC complaining that bootstrap-prefix.sh fails.
I'm sure that if native Gentoo hardware isn't available, it should be possible to approach OSL or other providers (I, myself, am using IntegriCloud for powerpc development) to sponsor a host, and/or put together a funding bid to the Trustees (there is capital available). TL;DR I don't think "ENOINFRA" is a particularly good excuse in this day-and-age of cloud-based solutions. Let us help you, and perhaps we can get the very popular Gentoo Prefix onto a slightly firmer footing! :) Best Regards, Michael "veremitz" Everitt.
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