A minimal network install of Debian testing [1] was made on one of the new IBM xSeries 345 machines. Being minimal, this kernel does not yet recognize the second CPU or second Gig, but my first focus is to get the box up and running. Once running, I plan to attempt to replicate this on other operating systems (in particular FreeBSD) for comparison purposes. Once we have had a chance to evaluate the alternatives, the plan is to settle down to a single machine, possibly with a completely different OS than what is currently installed on brutus, and that machine will be called brutus (it likely will be the same physical machine, but that's not important either).
The key point is: don't get too comfortable, as things may change.
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To date, I have installed the following via apt-get: sudo, apache, python, and cvs. In addition, I have installed Sun's j2sdk1.4.2_04.
I created a user called 'gump' and sent the instructions on where to find the password to dims, leosimons, and ajack. Once this machine is fully set up, the plan is to make this a public resource for Apache committers with a desire to participate, but initially it makes sense to keep the list small to minimize stepping on one another's work.
I've followed the /usr/local/gump directory structure pattern that I found in place on moof, though I did place packages on a separate hard drive, and created a convenient symbolic link to public from /home/gump.
I also copied and updated the /usr/local/gump/README from Moof. I created the 'public' flavour, checked out GUMP, created a brutus.xml workspace, and tried to run the first tests. python gump/check.py failed as follows:
File "/usr/local/gump/public/gump/python/gump/output/statsdb.py", line 181, in
getFloat
if self.db.has_key(key): val=self.db[key]
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py", line 142, in has_key
return self.db.has_key(key)
TypeError: String or Integer object expected for key, unicode found
An easy fix for this would be to add "key=str(key)" immediately before this line, and in other similar methods. It might be preferable to do this upstream (like when the string is read).
I have not yet proceeded to step 8 which involves forrest. If the consensus is that we want to replace this with a Python solution, I can invest the time to make that happen.
- Sam Ruby
[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/
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