I approve of this. It would certainly help us with figuring out why builds error out if it's distro specific.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Michael Halstead <mich...@yoctoproject.org> wrote: > On 11/25/2013 07:01 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> On Friday 22 November 2013 15:43:58 Michael Halstead wrote: >>> Currently all builders are simply named ab00-ab13 based on when we >>> acquired them. The name doesn't change except for ab01 which has been >>> reused on new hardware. As we increase the number of builders and make >>> the build process more flexible this becomes inconvenient. I'd like to >>> switch to embedding useful information in the name. >>> >>> Going forward as I refresh builders I'd like to name them with their >>> distro and location. >>> >>> For example at OSL: >>> >>> fedora19.osl.yoctoproject.org >>> fedora20.osl.yoctoproject.org >>> opensuse131.osl.yoctoproject.org >>> ubuntu1310.osl.yoctoproject.org >>> etc. >>> >>> And if we added a build clusters in the EasyStreet datacenter in Portland: >>> >>> centos64.pdx.yoctoproject.org >>> debian7.pdx.yoctoproject.org >>> etc. >>> >>> This allows for additional build clusters to be added and makes the >>> distro clear to anyone viewing the logs. The current available build >>> slaves can be found on the relevant cluster's buildbot interface >>> (http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/buildslaves) so as names >>> change there is an easy place to look them up. >>> >>> Comments? >> I guess this works fine until you want to have two builders with the same >> distro. Maybe we plan not to do that anymore...? > > I've been asked to run many different distros in order to find distro > specific incompatibilities and bugs. So ideally we wouldn't have two > builders running the same distro and version in the same location. > Sometimes when refreshing all of the builders at once we will install > the same software on all of them to speed up the process. They were all > openSUSE for awhile 2 years ago and they are all Fedora at the moment. > In these cases, should they arise again, I would append a letter to > distinguish the hostname. > > fedora20.osl.yoctoproject.org > fedora20-a.osl.yoctoproject.org > fedora20-b.osl.yoctoproject.org > fedora20-c.osl.yoctoproject.org > > > >> >> Cheers, >> Paul >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > -- Elizabeth Flanagan Yocto Project Build and Release _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
