Thanks for the comments! On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:25:02 -0300, Guilherme Salgado <guilherme.salg...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > That wiki page[1] gave me a good overview of the build service; I have > only a couple questions.
Excellent! > Also, even though I didn't actually read most of the code, I saw some > shell script to configure the build slave and I'm wondering if you think > it'd be worth using something like puppet for that instead. The scripts > seem small enough at this point, so it may not worth the effort at this > point, but I'm sure they'll grow over time and we don't want to end up > with a mess similar to the old l-m-c. ... and then ... > After reading this I realize what I meant may not be clear... > > What I meant is to use puppet manifests to describe the resources we > need to build android and then run 'puppet apply <manifest>' on the > newly instantiated slave to have it configured. > > We could also use that for the build master, just in case it ever dies > or we want to migrate it to our own cloud infrastructure. Well, the simple point is that I don't know anything about puppet :-) I think for now, the slave initialization is so simple (90% just installing packages) that we might as well leave it for now. It would probably make sense for the master though! > > SCRIPT_NAME: Defines the name of the[...] > > At first I thought it'd be nice to have a short description of the > existing scripts here, but it looks like we only have the regular one > and an extra for building with a custom toolchain, so maybe it's not > neeeded? Hm, probably a good idea. I've added a few words. > > To get your script into the branch used by the build system, > > submit a merge proposal to [...] > > I guess that means the jenkins job created under the hoods will always > use the tip of the build-tools branch, avoiding the need for a manual > update? Yes. I've made that explicit. Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
