Gavin Sherry wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 1. Pull source directly from repositories (cvs, git, etc.) PLM >> doesn't really track actually scm repositories. It requires >> directories of source code to be traversed, which are set up by >> creating mirrors. > > It seems to me that a better approach might be to mirror the CVS repo -- > or at least make that an option -- and pull the sources locally. Having to > pull down >100MB of data for every build might be onerous to some build > farm members. >
I am not clear about what is being proposed. Currently buildfarm syncs against (or pulls a fresh copy from, depending on configuration) either the main anoncvs repo or a mirror (which you can get using cvsup or rsync, among other mechanisms). I can imagine a mechanism in which we pull certain patches from a patch server (maybe using an RSS feed, or a SOAP call?) which could be applied before the run. I wouldn't want to couple things much more closely than that. The patches would need to be vetted first, or no sane buildfarm owner will want to use them. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly