>From sfwnv-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org Sun Jun 29 21:44:25 2008
>My apology. It is just a little bothersome. I guess I am just
>wondering whether if we actually make sure that it builds before the
>rest of us get on .. like we run regression on them etc. upon upgrading.
umm, ok.
Before I upgrade the public ones I watch over, I've already built ON and SFW
and the same bits on my machines (sometimes including the gate machines).
That's part of the reason that they don't get upgraded quickly.
I used to do builds on them after I upgraded them as well but since
that just seems to eat up the disk space and cycles that others
actually need I don't do that anymore - if you prefer I can certainly
shut them down for a while on upgrades. That just seems rude to me though,
as things like this (way old leftover bits) should not generally
be happening. What usually happens is what probably happened to you
on zod - you have some variable set that I don't and my build would
have worked, but yours wouldn't.
>Would you recommend other build systems?
None that I own, clearly, if you feel I don't maintain them the
way you'd like (you are of course welcome to take ownership of them :).
But you don't have to use the public machines, they're there to help
but if they don't you should use your own. Which is generally safest
anyway if you can but then you need to keep it up to date as well.
Mike
