Nightly live composes in koji

[Kevin Fenzi]

Greetings. 

I've moved over to doing the nightly live media composes in koji
instead of running them in serial on one build machine. 

Advantages: 

* Composes will finish in ~30min or so for all spins instead of taking
  all day on the one compose machine. 

* They are scratch builds, so koji will keep them around for 2 weeks
  (or less if that changes). This allows you to go back and look at
  older ones anytime you like, including logs and sizes. 

* This is the same env that will be used to produce official live
  media, so we are more closely testing what we are making. 

Disadvantages: 

* It's now harder to tell when media are growing over time. Perhaps
  someone could look at some reporting here to let us just pull the
  size from the jobs out to graph trends? 

* It's harder for us to test something like a new livecd-tools or
  other packages that are not yet in branched stable.

You can find a list of the builds and links to their koji task pages
at: 

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/current.html

Or older ones at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/

Please do test things out and let me know if anyone runs into any
issues that would require us to go back to the old way. ;) 

Thanks, 

kevin

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 15:34:46 -0600,
  Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
>  Greetings. 
>  
>  I've moved over to doing the nightly live media composes in koji
>  instead of running them in serial on one build machine.  
Are we going to be able to adjust where the ks files are pulled from as
we near release?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:33:16 -0500
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to&gt; wrote:

>  On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 15:34:46 -0600,
>    Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Greetings. 
>  > 
>  > I've moved over to doing the nightly live media composes in koji
>  > instead of running them in serial on one build machine. 
>  
>  Are we going to be able to adjust where the ks files are pulled from
>  as we near release? 
Sure. 

Currently the script I use gets the ks files from whatever checkout I
run it in. Ideally I'd like to get this moved up to a machine where it
can run after the compose lands, but even then we should be able to
adjust what branch it pulls from. 

kevin

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 15:34 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

>  You can find a list of the builds and links to their koji task pages
>  at: 
>  
>  http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/current.html
>  
>  Or older ones at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
>  
>  Please do test things out and let me know if anyone runs into any
>  issues that would require us to go back to the old way. ;)  
As discussed at the weekly meeting, I'm a bit worried about people not
being able to find the New Hotness. It would be great if visiting any
URL under http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes would
redirect you to the current.html page so you can find the builds.
thanks!
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:06:30 -0700
Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 15:34 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  
>  > You can find a list of the builds and links to their koji task pages
>  > at: 
>  > 
>  > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/current.html
>  > 
>  > Or older ones at
>  > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
>  > 
>  > Please do test things out and let me know if anyone runs into any
>  > issues that would require us to go back to the old way. ;) 
>  
>  As discussed at the weekly meeting, I'm a bit worried about people not
>  being able to find the New Hotness. It would be great if visiting any
>  URL under http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes would
>  redirect you to the current.html page so you can find the builds.
>  thanks! 
I've setup some quick links that should do the trick for the dirs under
there... do let me know if there's any other links that are in
widespread use that should be also fixed there. 

kevin