Re: Build farm

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>FYI, the HP testdrive farm, http://www.testdrive.hp.com, has shared
>>>directories for most of the machines, meaning you can CVS update once
>>>and telnet in to compile for each platform.
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>>As Peter pointed out, these machines are firewalled. But presumably
>>one could upload a snapshot to them. What I had in mind was a
>>more distributed system, though.
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>>Of course, these things are not mutually exclusive - using the
>>HP testdrive farm looks like it might be nice. But it would be
>>hard to automate, I suspect.
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>I figured you could just upload once and telnet and build on each
>machine.
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What I'm working on (slowly - I'm quite busy right now, and about to be 
away from home for 5 days) is a system which would (or could) run from 
cron on every member of the farm, and upload its results to a central 
server where it could be displayed, in a somewhat similar way to the way 
the Samba build farm works - see http://build.samba.org/ - so we'd be 
able to see at a glance when something is broken and where and why. We 
could also incorporate email notification of breakage, as a refinement.

I have a few pieces of this working but not a full suite yet - it will 
essentially be 3 perl scripts - one on the client (to run the update(s), 
build(s) and upload the results) and two on the central server (one for 
upload and one for display). When I get a demo page done I'll show it 
working with a couple of hosts.

Of course, you can automate (almost) anything, including telnet, but 
right now I'm assuming the farm members will have internet connectivity.

cheers

andrew