Good idea, guys. I envision something like 2) with a very thin layer of automation written in Groovy to generate dependency lists and run needed install commands.
I argue for Groovy, because any kind of programming in shell ends up in an awful mess. Cos On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:32PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Anatoli Fomenko <afome...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I found that in order to avoid unnecessary build failures I need to quickly > > set up additional > > VMs for Bigtop supported platforms. From my experience with Precise, I > > would say that it's a task that may take time. > > > > Any suggestions how it could be accelerated? > > You're raising a very good point, actually. In fact I've run into > this very issue while trying to configure an extra Jenkins > slave for bigtop01. > > Now, in the ideal world, all the build time dependencies > that we have would be packaged and we'd express the > fact that we depend on them via the very same packages > that we're maintaining. That's what RPM's BuildRequires: > and DEB's Build-Depends: fields are for -- to tell you > explicitly what's required to be installed on the system > before you can do the build of the package. > > Then you'd use the tools like: > apt-get build-dep > yum-builddep > to satisfy all the dependencies and you're done. > > Now, this works great in the environment where > you already have source packages which you > can give to apt-get build-dep/yum-builddep > > But Bigtop has to be bootstrapped from the source. > We can't assume existence of source packages. > > So here's the question to the bigger Bigtop > community -- how do we want to proceed to > manage repeatable build environments for > our packages? > > The options I see are: > #1 maintain a parallel (very shallow) collection > of puppet code that would, essentially, > manage our "build slaves" > #2 do #1 but automate it in such a way that > the info actually gets harvested from > spec/conrol files > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Roman.
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