On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 11/15/13 6:54 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > > I wanted to give an update on the buildbots, as this is a question that > > keeps coming up. > > first of all thanks for the summarized update > > > > > * We've received assurances that the Mac buildbot is coming. Long > > story short, the current mac hardware is a bit long in the tooth and > > we would kill everything on it if we added our builds to the current > > machine. We are waiting for real hardware in the form of a Mac Pro > > which will enable us to have multiple virtualized mac bots, giving > > us our own environment that can be set up for AOO. The machine > > should be ordered by the end of the year - bot should come up early > > next year - ish... > > perfect and with the ongoing 64 bit work it will be much easier to setup > a working env on a modern system (kudos for Herbert). > > > * We are also waiting on a CentOS bot to create our standard Linux > > build. This has been requested and is in the works, and Jan has > > agreed to bring this up in discussions with infra. I am hoping we > > can have this for the 4.1 release timeframe. > > sounds good and I hope we can get it. I believe we can focus on a 64 bit > system first. > and hopefully 32 bit won't be far behind... > > > * FreeBSD bot - we have a new freebsd bot and it is slowly moving > > toward building without errors. If anyone has suggestions for > > fixing issues on there, please post to dev and we'll move that > > forward. We are currently stuck on Hunspell - > > FreeBSD is a port but we don't release binaries. It's fine to me to have > a FreeBSD port but for me it don't have a high priority. If we have > hardware or other physical limitation we should first drop such > unreleased platforms. And please don't get me wrong we do everything to > support this platform but I personally don't see the demand for a build > bot at the moment > > > > > > http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-fbsd-nightly/builds/91/steps/configure/logs/stdio > > > > and > > > > > http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/buildlogs/fbsdn/log/unxfbsdx.pro.build.html > > > > * The hung process issue with the windows buildbots seems to solved > > now, and has not been a problem lately. > > * Currently the Windows bots are failing - but this seems to an issue > > of svn getting out of sync, I'm cleaning up the bot and restarting > > the machine after some updates - I expect this to clean up the > > current issues. ( > > * Snapshots - both linux and windoze are currently having issues in > > terms of the size of files that the build creates. The standard > > buildbot directory upload routine zips the directory, uploads it, > > and unzips at the destination. Our directory of install bits has > > gotten too large and we are running into an exception on this > > step. (On long term fix is to create our own custom directory > > upload code for build bot - but that is another discussion...) The > > short term solution is to split the snapshot build into two builds > > (possible in a single flow) and build half the languages in each > > build - this should get us around the space issue. > > mmh, I always wondering a little bit about this physical limitations but > that is a different story. > > Can you tell us a little bit more about the requirements for the custom > directory and upload code. > > > For a short term solution I would suggest to prepare a package lst file > and pack only en-US + the 5 most often downloaded languages and for all > other languages we build language packs only. What do you think? > > Juergen > > > > > That's all for now > > A. > > > > > > > > On 11/13/2013 10:01 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Glenn Harvey Liwanag < > >> glennharveyliwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I can try building the thing on my Mac OS X if that's what you're > >>> looking > >>> for. It's my only computer right now and I use it for school so I > >>> have to > >>> know first the average build time and the instructions to get the whole > >>> thing done without academics interfering with the work. > >>> > >> Thanks for this offer! Resources used for building are dependent on your > >> system, but typically it would take about 2 hours for a full build. > >> > >> Information on how to obtain the source and a link to the Building Guide > >> can be found on the project source page: > >> > >> http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html > >> > >> Please let us know how this goes for you. > >> > >> > >>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Regarding Jürgen's comments on a recent thread -- > >>>> > >>>> http://markmail.org/message/v5zli2np67qv5ryz > >>>> > >>>> Since CentOS 5 is our reference distribution for delivered Linux > >>> binaries > >>>> (I did not know this!) -- and I am assuming this distro might remain > as > >>> the > >>>> reference going forward, does it make sense to try to move forward > >>>> to set > >>>> this up as a buildbot. I know wokr had already started on this. Can > >>> someone > >>>> give us an update? > >>>> > >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6217 > >>>> > >>>> I don't know CentOS, but having about 18 years in various *nixes > >>>> HP/UX, > >>>> Solaris, RedHat, SuSE), I could probably help assuming I could work in > >>>> command line only to deal with this. > >>>> > >>>> On the MacOSX front, the latest update indicates we don't have > hardware > >>> :( > >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4902 > >>>> > >>>> Any suggestions? Volunteers with equipment to dedicate to this? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>>> MzK > >>>> > >>>> “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, > >>>> Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” > >>>> -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax > >>>> > >> > >> > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
