On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:45 AM Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev < [email protected]> wrote:
> What computer resources are needed to build all the distribution images > overnight, i.e. 8 hours, from a local repository? > On my workstation (4 year old 10 core machine with 48GB RAM) it takes a ~2h if I remember correctly. I do not think it is CPU bound as the work is mainly serialized. > I'm on a 3 Mb/s downlink, so as a practical matter I'm better off building > and testing release candidates locally. > > I'd like to take on the work. It's a few weeks twice a year which I can > comfortably manage. I have plenty of professional experience producing > internal software releases in major oil companies. > > I've also done FreeBSD, Debian, Solaris 11 and Solaris 10 installs in the > last week. For all the flaws I encountered in the Hipster 2020.10 images, > it's still better than the others in many ways. I'm proposing to work on > the software to build the installation media with a strong focus on > intensive testing of the install process and making it more flexible. > Once you have the distro constructor set up on the machine it is fairly easy. I expected the initial setup would take ~30min and some trial and error to modify the vanilla manifests. e.g. to use your own local repository to spin custom images. > > The installation process is the new user's first impression. Gparted not > working doesn't give a good impression. Nor does, "you can only use 2 TB > of your new 5 TB disk". I'd like to fix that. > I know gparted is not great... I attempted to port our patchset to newer versions a long time ago but it was too much work... > > Have Fun! > Reg > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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