On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:23:03 +0200 "Maxence Dunnewind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. > > i'm a user of the Ubuntu Linux OS, and also a packager for this OS. > As you may know , packaging can be take a lot of time, mainly > during building process. > I would create a public cluster for help packagers. All Ubuntu > users can accept we use their computers on the cluster. But the > cluster system MUST only use free ressource of this computers (and > maybe user could set a quota)... > > i want people only have to install some software (no kernel > compilation or other things). > > I want know if beowulf could works in this case ???? Hi Maxence, Have you looked at distcc? Its probably closest to what you're requesting: http://distcc.samba.org/ I help out with Fedora Extras so I can certainly appreciate the time that goes into compiling packages! It would be nice to have a distributed build system with per-compilation-unit (eg. per-object- file) granularity. But I'm afraid it may be a somewhat complicated task for, for instance, Fedora Extras since the FE build system uses a chroot-ed environment (the "mock" package) to ensure build cleanliness and the presence of all the needed dependencies. Maybe NFS-mounting the chroot would be sufficient...? If you split up the work on a per-package and per-architecture basis (i386, x86-64, ppc, etc.) then its relatively (!) straight-forward to build a cluster with the necessary hardware and perform builds of separate packages/arches on a simultaneous (each in different chroots on potentially different machines) basis. Thats exactly what the current Fedora Extras build system (called "plague") does. You can see some details at: http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/index.psp http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/BuildSystemClientSetup And I only discuss Fedora Extras because its what I'm familiar with. I'd be curious to hear how build systems work for other distros! Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://eh3.com/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
