On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:59:08PM +0100, Denis Arnaud wrote:
> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:33:38 -0500
> From: seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org>
>
> I answered Denis immediately at the first post and he concurred it was
> a problem. I like to think the conversation evolved as we discussed.
>
Yes, the conversation has shifted... Indeed, I mixed two distinct ideas:
1. One corresponding to an actual use case: using a private/trusted cloud
service to do scratch, chain or even massive builds.
Doing a generic "koji.example.com" image would allow anyone to start rpm builds
and probably many could use this who now object to the many config steps that
koji requires. I am often setting up koji within different environments to
rebuild a few rpms, but haven't setup such a generic image yet.
On mass rebuilds: A complete RHEL5 rebuild on a moderate home server with
i5 2500, 12GB RAM and a SSD needs about 1,5 days only. So using a single
image and a real big server image already gives quite a good throughput.
2. Another one corresponding to a dream, really: a P2P cloud, just
because
it sounds exciting, and would certainly be a USP (unique selling point) for
Fedora.
>From the answers, it seems that both ideas ring a bell. And, of course, the
dream does not seem doable, mainly for security reason. Or it could be
implemented as a proof-of-concept of all the technologies and skills, which
Fedora gathers under its umbrella?
Nevertheless, for now, I am really interested by the item #1 above. For the
#2, we never know. Maybe a GSoC, or something like that, could make it
happen...
One item that could need a fix in koji:
koji build clients sometimes hang if they get re-assigned a new IP.
best regards,
Florian La Roche