[distcc] Web based compiling farm

2005-05-04 Thread Antenore Gatta
Hi all, First of all sorry, I don't have strong english skills. I was joined in the distcc mailing list in the last November because I'm interested to use distcc as a building system backend for a compiling farm. My goal is to create a distributed system for compiling software on demand

Re: [distcc] Web based compiling farm

2005-05-04 Thread Martin Pool
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 10:23 +0200, Antenore Gatta wrote: My goal is to create a distributed system for compiling software on demand for not experienced users. In the first stage I'd like to have a web based form where the user can choose from a software list and between some different

Re: [distcc] Web based compiling farm

2005-05-04 Thread Antenore Gatta
Thanks a lot Martin. We are working on the first stage, so we have a lot of time to think about LSF problems. Probably the best way could be to choose a distrib as starting point. Like Gentoo stage 3... I'm totaly agree with you, security is the most important matter of this project and we have

Re: [distcc] discovering the distccd hosts on a DHCP LAN?

2005-05-04 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Timothee, While most of the distcc hosts I use have a fixed IP, I have a number of machines that live on the LAN and get their IPs assigned by dhcp. I'm looking for a way to use those for distcc as well. I've seen the FAQ, and mention of centralized manager / TeamBuilder thing, but I

Re: [distcc] Randomization by slots

2005-05-04 Thread Daniel Kegel
Donohue, Michael wrote: The other change is to randomize host selection, and choose based on slots. This means that hosts with 4 available slots are 4 times more likely to be chosen than a host with only 1 available slot. OK, I'm sold on the approach. Josh and I now feel silly for randomizing

Re: [distcc] resolution on a configuration file?

2005-05-04 Thread Daniel Kegel
Donohue, Michael wrote: I would like to get my patches considered for inclusion, but they seem to be held up by not having a proper place to configure flags. I dont find using the hosts file all that objectionable, since I want to be able to control these on a system wide basis. This means