Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-29 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
On 05/23/2010 08:25 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > I don't think anyone thinks rebuilding the builders every 6 months (and > fixing all the bugs that comes with that) is a good use of their time. 6 in the worst case, 12 in the best. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fe

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/24/2010 04:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >> what would be involved in keeping the vm updated to Fedora N-1 ? > > It is built with itself, all except the running kernel behind the mock > chroot. > Oh thats great ... thank you -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admi

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:31:09PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: >On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 01:14:07PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:01 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:45:49PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> > > People already ready run scripts

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:31 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > It is certainly possible. Often in experimental state, but > nevertheless. > We have the technology for VMs. > > Right, sounds perfect for running a build system under... -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- FreedomĀ² is a feature! identi.ca: http

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 01:14:07PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:01 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:45:49PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > People already ready run scripts to look for FTBFS packages now. Having to > > > deal with all of

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:01 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:45:49PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > People already ready run scripts to look for FTBFS packages now. Having to > > deal with all of these at once would be a real problem. Doing this this way > > allows u

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 17:21 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/23/2010 02:25 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > > I don't think anyone thinks rebuilding the builders every 6 months (and > > fixing all the bugs that comes with that) is a good use of their time. > > > > -Mike > > But a relea

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/23/2010 11:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > I still carry the scars from when mysql stopped building in brew, a > couple years ago. Not just rawhide, but brew in general. Eventually > (after a couple months of bewilderment) it emerged that the build > Frustrating I am sure - but it could hav

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:11:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I could maybe buy "fedora N is built on fedora N-1", but there are two > problems with that: first, you'd need a separate build farm for every > branch, With mock running directly inside Xen VMs as is the case now, then yes. But with moc

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:45:49PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > People already ready run scripts to look for FTBFS packages now. Having to > deal with all of these at once would be a real problem. Doing this this way > allows us to spread out the fixing over time. The problem isn't FTBFS packag

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-23 Thread Tom Lane
Genes MailLists writes: > On 05/23/2010 02:25 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: >> I don't think anyone thinks rebuilding the builders every 6 months (and >> fixing all the bugs that comes with that) is a good use of their time. > But a release really should be boot strapped with itself once when it > ge

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 17:21:36 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/23/2010 02:25 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > > I don't think anyone thinks rebuilding the builders every 6 months (and > > fixing all the bugs that comes with that) is a good use of their time. > > > > -Mike > > But

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/23/2010 02:25 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > > I don't think anyone thinks rebuilding the builders every 6 months (and > fixing all the bugs that comes with that) is a good use of their time. > > -Mike But a release really should be boot strapped with itself once when it gets stable en

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-23 Thread Mike McGrath
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > On 05/16/2010 11:31 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > And it causes a load of obscure Koji-specific bugs which require > > workarounds just for Koji builds. This was the latest one: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-de...@nongnu.org/msg252

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-23 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > On 05/16/2010 11:31 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> And it causes a load of obscure Koji-specific bugs which require >> workarounds just for Koji builds. This was the latest one: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-de...@nongnu.org/msg25242

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-23 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
On 05/16/2010 11:31 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > And it causes a load of obscure Koji-specific bugs which require > workarounds just for Koji builds. This was the latest one: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-de...@nongnu.org/msg25242.html > Hopefully those builders can be upgraded to RHE

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > skvidal and I are working on a builder for third party add on repositories > for Fedora. That builder would be separate from koji and would, indeed > use a vm for building. Yet another one? We already have Plague and Koji, what would the new one offer over those? Would i

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/17/2010 07:15 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > We don't by any means have enough programmed testing to be confident > about this kind of status for more than milestone releases at present. > Given that, it certainly seems much safer to just build F(N+1) on F(N), > as proposed earlier. Yes - t

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:41 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/17/2010 11:22 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > otherwise it remains at B2. > > > > Just because you manage to build a kernel, or even manage to boot a > > kernel, doesn't mean it really works. We really need all the testing > > th

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/17/2010 11:22 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > otherwise it remains at B2. > > Just because you manage to build a kernel, or even manage to boot a > kernel, doesn't mean it really works. We really need all the testing > that goes into a full Fedora release before we trust what is built > fro

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:17:11AM -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:59:08AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:06:52AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > Unless RHEL 6 is needed to get sufficient VM capability, as was said > > > above would

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:35:37AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/17/2010 04:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > The problem with using a VM created using the latest unstable Fedora > > is that the latest unstable Fedora might not be working. Perhaps we > > could always build Fedora n+1

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:59:08AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:06:52AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > Unless RHEL 6 is needed to get sufficient VM capability, as was said > > above would it not be cleaner to compile the entire release in a VM > > using fedora

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/17/2010 04:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The problem with using a VM created using the latest unstable Fedora > is that the latest unstable Fedora might not be working. Perhaps we > could always build Fedora n+1 on top of Fedora n. > > Rich. > What some do is keep several build tr

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:06:52AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > Unless RHEL 6 is needed to get sufficient VM capability, as was said > above would it not be cleaner to compile the entire release in a VM > using fedora itself? Last I heard, the builders were going to be changed to use a VM to

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-17 Thread Andreas Schwab
Xose Vazquez Perez writes: > It's a 'must have', for some packages. > > e.g. GLIBC: > http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h;hb=HEAD > > A lot of features can't be used, because 2.6.18(3.5 years old) > is the base kernel. This is not true

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-16 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/16/2010 05:31 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> Is there any plan to build fedora with their own kernel ? >> >> It's a 'must have', for some packages. >> >> e.g. GLIBC: >> http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h;hb=HEAD >> >> A lot of

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > On 01/26/2009 07:04, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > from a last year message: > > > Jakub Jelinek wrote: > >>> The koji build boxes all run RHEL 5. Getting them upgraded to a not-yet- > >>> released kernel seems unlikely. > >> > >

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-15 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > On 01/26/2009 07:04, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > from a last year message: > > > Jakub Jelinek wrote: > >>> The koji build boxes all run RHEL 5. Getting them upgraded to a not-yet- > >>> released kernel seems unlikely. > >> > >

base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-15 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
On 01/26/2009 07:04, Ulrich Drepper wrote: from a last year message: > Jakub Jelinek wrote: >>> The koji build boxes all run RHEL 5. Getting them upgraded to a not-yet- >>> released kernel seems unlikely. >> >> I know it is a pain, on the other hand it would really improve Fedora 11. > > Not o