tc_command.sh - tinderbuild_cleanup

[Ade Lovett]

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On Apr 28, 2006, at 23:44 , Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:06 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>> Hmm looks like ade hasn't that much time these days? Maybe we  
>> should just
>> try removing it?
>
> Okay.  Ade if you object, feel free to revert, but please see the  
> thread
> as I think there are some valid issues there.

The patch looks fine to me in principle.

As has been rather painfully obvious, my work on distributed  
tinderboxing has ground to a halt over the past few months, simply  
down to an insane amount of travel and hardware installations  
associated with my real job.

In the next day or so, I'll write up my discoveries so far, looking  
at how I envisage things migrating from where they're at right now,  
on to the next step.

There's been a lot of cleanup code in HEAD, most notably the use of  
the tinderLoc() function to provide a single point of entry to  
various paths, which could do with backporting, and an eventual 2.4  
release.

Going forward, however, it has become obvious to me that there are a  
number of fundamental issues that need to be addressed in order to  
allow for co-operative building across a number of hosts, with the  
current setup (1 build, 1 host), being a specific degenerate case  
(ie: a few extra setup pieces would be needed beyond what we have now).

Having just got back from a very long week in San Jose, installing  
several hundred TB of new drives, I'm completely shattered at this  
point, but I do promise to followup in the next week or so.

- -aDe

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