Andrew, > or 2.6.x ... in fact it's almost impossible to tell what might be > installed on a Gentoo system, or how it was compiled. So I'm really not > sure how we should treat such systems.
Distribution, General OS, Kernel Version, Other Info e.g. SuSE Linux 2.6.8-7 64-Bit MS Windows XP SP2 Also, I think you should be recording the compile-time switches used on each machine and indexing them indivdually. I'd hate to find out that, for example, we'd broken --with-odbc and didn't know it because nobody in the buildfarm was using it. > Second is the fact that systems change over time. People upgrade their > machines. I'm considering a facility to allow people to change the > <os-version,compiler-version> aspects of their registered personality - > these will become essentially timestamped pieces of information, so > we'll still be able to tie a set of values to a history item. Yes ... actually, a quick (and automated) reminder e-mail once a month wouldn't hurt. And this machine registration info could be kept as a config file in the Buildfarm directory, for ease of update, and sent in with the buildfarm results. > Fourth, there are some significant gaps in the buildfarm coverage. I am I've a few responses from the PWN, such as a YDL machine on PPC4. I'll be passing these people along this week. > Finally, a volunteer or two to help me with both running and > administering this would be great. Knowledhge of perl and Template > Toolkit a decided advantage. I can help with the people end of things, but my web skills suck. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])