Call to arms: Tinderbox 3.0

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:41:50 +0200
Erwin Lansing <erwin at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:36:46PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > The good news is since people like miwi are using it pretty
> > extensively, I think 3.0 is in fairly good shape.  The tasks I see
> > need which need to be done are as follows:
> > 
> > * Check for documentation completeness, and fill in any holes.
> 
> I was planning on installing a new personal tinderbox anyway, so I'll
> go the 3.0 route here and see what I'm missing for a scratch install.
> > 
> > * Decide on how upgrades will be done.  Will they be automated like
> > between 1.x and 2.0, or should we simply instruct users to do a
> > wholesale replacement of 2.x with 3.0?  Left to me, I was just
> > going to document what needs to happen to install 3.0 from scratch,
> > and forget the upgrade.
> > 
> Too bad it's not left to you :-)  

I don't feel like rebuilding all the PT again on QA Tindy, thank you
very much :-)

> Serouisly though, on the one hand, I
> think a scratch install of the shared tb3/tb4 tinderboxes might not
> be a bad idea as some things can be done easier, on the other hand,
> it'll require quite a lot of work with around 60 users, each with
> their own portstree on 3 branches and 2 architectures.  Starting from
> scratch might also give an opportunity to see if more can be shared
> across the two boxes.
> 
> Basic setup right now, portstrees are shared via NFS, all the rest is
> running independent in two databases.  The trouble I had at the time
> was how to reuse a build on two archs, which I finally gave up on and
> went for independent installations and some hackish scripts to create
> new users.  So any thoughts on how to ease user administration and
> share as much information as possible between an i386, an amd64, and
> a sparc64 is in the making, preferably from one webinterface/database.
> 
> -erwin
> 
> PS: There were rumours about hardware being available at ISC, so I
> might have to do a scratch install anyway there.

In which case I'd very much like to run QA Tindy on it. I'm working on
extending the testing to other non-pointy-hat tested configs and I
could really-really use more horse power. :-)


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