Am 14.06.19 um 22:51 schrieb Adam Borowski: > Hi! > Fedora has an awesome feature for packagers: scratch builds. It would be > great if we could steal the idea. > > I find myself doing incremental uploads just to fix bugs that the previous > upload revealed on some weird arch. At home, I can reasonably test only > amd64 and arm64 -- especially if valgrind is involved, qemu-user is not up > to scratch. There are porterboxes but using them is inconvenient and > involved, especially when the task is "build on all archs, report failures". > > Thus, what would you guys say about a new distribution, "scratch"? It would > be a kind of extra-experimental that doesn't put its build results anywhere > persistent. Throwing away built .debs would be ok, keeping just logs. > > Like any other upload currently, it would be restricted to DDs/DMs only -- > I'm told buildds have inadequate isolation to run untrusted builds, even > without taking into account container/VM escapes, etc. On IRC, Ansgar > requested keeping signed records as a precaution against hijacked DD > accounts; that idea sounds good to me. > > While every of us can (and in 99% cases does) test on amd64, it would be > nice to ease testing elsewhere as well.
It would be awesome if we had resources to run autopkgtests for such scratch builds on a variety of archs as well.
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