Re: buildserver

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 01:42:27PM +0300, Yury Bushmelev wrote:
> 2010/11/19 Klaus Schwarzkopf <schwarzkopf@sensortherm.de>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have some problems with the ti recipes, see my emails on the list.
> >
> > The two problems are:
> > * the recipes are out of date and don't work.
> > * the recipes can't download the source files.
> >
> > My idea is, to have an buildserver. On every commit (every night or every
> > week), the buildserver download the sources and build the recipe.
> 
> For which DISTRO/MACHINE and image should it build? :)
> What to do with commits while building is in process?
> What to do with non-recipes commits (classes, conf, contrib)
> 
> > If the server builds the recipe successful, it copy the source files to the
> > webserver.
> >
> > If the builds fails, the person how committed the recipe recieve a email
> > with the log files.
> >
> > What do you think about my idea?
> 
> Just remember that OE have a lot of distros, machines and images.
> Ideal case is to test all combinations, but, let's try to imagine how
> long this will be.
> 
> We have following number of distros, machines and images:
> $ ls conf/distro/*.conf | wc -l
> 32
> $ ls conf/machine/*.conf | wc -l
> 297
> $ ls recipes/images/*.bb | wc -l
> 99
> 
> My testbuilder (phenom II x6) is building one image in about 2 hours.
> So, 32 * 297 * 99 * 2 = 1881792 hours. It is about 214 years if I
> calculate right.

But you assume every recipe MACHINE_ARCH or removing tmpdir for every build from scratch.

If you have 1 tmpdir per distro you have it all built in maybe one
week or so.

Regards,

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com