On 26/11/18 08:32, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 26-11-2018 08:27:41 +0000, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> 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. > Sorry. with Infra, I didn't mean the team or the hardware, I meant the > scripting/software to keep track of the builds and visualise their > results. I can fire off a bootstrap right now, but there is nothing > picking up on their results. > >> Let us help you, and perhaps we can get the very popular Gentoo Prefix onto >> a slightly firmer footing! :) > At this point I think he project at the very least needs a lot of > helping hands. I totally agree, automation is the way forward, but it > always will need caretakers. > > Thanks, > Fabian > > I'll throw my 'oar' in here too - I've been helping out extensively with the kernelCI project @alicef spawned. We're presently using buildbot to do automated emerges and a 'make defconfig' on the kernel sources, just to make sure patching works, and compiles. We've actually reached a point too, where we QEMU-boot said kernel image into a pre-built stage4.
I'm happy to share some of the know-how to get some of this spun up for prefix if it's desirable. I've had to replicate the 'production' setup locally in order to develop and test changes, so its a process I'm becoming pretty familiar with. Buildbot is python, so it integrates pretty well with portage, and is accessible for devs. Let me know if this is a direction that would be favourable. https://github.com/gentoo/Gentoo_kernelCI/ Best regards, veremitz/Michael.
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