Secondary ARCH

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:28 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 01:54:26 pm Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > > * Sync mechanism.  We don't currently have a good way for these sorts
> > > > of things to get their bits onto above backend storage.  The "add an
> > > > rsync to an internal server that can run as a cronjob" really only gets
> > > > us so far.  I expect that the secondary arches would far prefer a push
> > > > mechanism.
> > > > * Need a good way to kick off the secondary arch builds.  This isn't
> > > > the highest priority, but it is eventually needed
> > >
> > > the sync and kicking off kinda come down to the same thing.  The way we
> > > have briefly talked about doing this is to have a koji hub at the
> > > secondary arch site and have it talk to the main hub.  which will do the
> > > queueing of builds and sync things back to the main hub when built.
> >
> > Yes and no -- that helps for packages, it doesn't help for ISOs.  Or
> > live CDs.
> these could be created close to the master buildsys and downloaded for 
> testing. 

Building ISOs requires running buildinstall which requires running
arch-specific stuff.  There's just no way around this.  And I really
don't want to be in the situation where we have to have a box of the
arch in the colo for it to be a secondary arch.  If that's the case, we
haven't succeeded.

Jeremy