Hi Roland! On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 08:40:05PM +0000, Roland Clobus (@rclobus-guest) wrote: >Roland Clobus created a merge request: !2 > >Project:Branches: rclobus-guest/live-setup:rclobus/reintroduce_live-build to >images-team/live-setup:master >Author: Roland Clobus >Assignees: >Reviewers: > >Build the bookworm images on a regular basis again. > >The script is based on old/run-30live-build and the script that currently runs >in Jenkins
I've reviewed and cherry-picked your commit here into master, but I'm afraid there's more work and refactoring needed here. Apologies if you've been misled by the old/run-30live-build script - that's now very outdated and doesn't fit the setup we have. We *used* to start our build VM, then let run-30live-build do all of its work inside the VM, then stop the VM. But (like some of the rest of our scripts!) that didn't parallelise very well, and when I heavily re-factored our build scripts back in 2020 I didn't update this to match. The new setup is driven by a top-level Makefile (Makefile.weekly) that we call with -j<number>, and to make this work well things are organised quite differently. We need the set of desktops listed in that Makefile, and then using Make dependencies and targets: * cause the live-building VM to be started * start separate build processes for <arch>-live-<desktop> * when an architecture's worth of binary builds are all finished: * do the work needed for publishing * build the list of source files needed to match * when *all* the binary builds are done: * stop the VM# * use the source lists for all arches to build source tarballs Now I can see what you're do in your script, I'm working on merging to something more current. I've just remembered one thing that used to cause major issues with live-build: multiple image builds in parallel would sometimes trip over each other. For us on release weekends, this is a critical featire: we have a large build machine to make things go fast. I hope this is now fixed in live-build, I guess we'll see! Thanks for your work so far! I'm hoping to get something working in the weekly image builds soon. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
