On 10/26/10 05:09 PM, todd rme wrote:
Currently the sage build farm only has openSUSE 11.1 builds available.
However, openSUSE 11.2 came out almost a year ago and openSUSE 11.3
came out several months ago. With fixes now being implemented for
Sage 4.6, (see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9530), Sage
will build successfully on openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3 for the first time.
Now it is being announced that support for openSUSE 11.1 is being
discontinued entirely on December 31st (see
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2010-10/msg00008.html).
This means no new updates for openSUSE 11.1 will be provided and all
downloads for openSUSE 11.1 will be removed from openSUSE servers.
This will leave Sage without binaries for any supported version of
openSUSE. Further, it is a security risk to Sage having a
distribution running on their build farm that does not receive
security updates. For this reason I think openSUSE 11.2 and/or 11.3
should be added to the build farm prior to the release of sage 4.6.
openSUSE 11.1 can then be removed from the build farm then or wait
when it reaches end-of-life.
It's totally unreasonable to expect to hold up releasing Sage 4.6 just because
openSUSE has decided to stop supporting 11.1 in December.
Currently Sage has no binaries at all for several Linux distributions including
Debian, Mandriva, Arch or Slackware. Therefore openSUSE is not unique in this
situation.
I think it is worthwhile doing this now to provide some buffer in case
of any problems.
Do you have a suitable machine that is kept on 24/7 and which you could allow a
buildbot access to? If so, you have a better chance of getting that integrated.
It's unfortunate, but installing operating systems is not everyones idea of fun
(once you have done it 20 times, it gets a bit boring), and there is not a queue
of people offering to set up buildbots.
I think it would be good to have systems with openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3 (not
everyone has the latest release installed), but someone has to do the work.
Ultimately, if you want a system supported, the best thing is to make it
available yourself, or offer to manage a virtual machine.
That's what I did with OpenSolaris - just made the machine available to the
buildbot.
Dave
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