Hi Luke,

Comments below,

Best regards,
alimon

[1] https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/
[2] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-autobuilder/

On 10/06/15 14:25, Luke (Lucas) Starrett wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to understand the feasibility of shared-state across multiple users in a development environment.  Does anyone have first-hand experience with this?  Am I asking for trouble?

It is feasible some the sstates can be generated using Yocto Autobuilder [1] [2] that support setup of various builder machines one as controller/worker and workers, things to
consider are:

Network bandwidth: Shared states works good on LAN environments.
Yocto Autobuilder and Developers Distro's: Shared states generates packages that are dependent on the distro like native ones, for use 100% of shared state is needed to use the same distro.


If this is expected to work, a secondary question would be whether or not shared-state on a NFS mounted path works.  Any thoughts?

The common setup consist in a one machine that acts as a controller/worker and shared the sstate and downloads to the workers using NFS for Developer usage it's better to share with
HTTP to avoid problems with the filesystem permissions.


Thanks,

Luke Starrett