New build machine
Mezz bsdforums.org
reigncracks at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 6 22:46:30 PDT 2003
>On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 19:08, Mezz bsdforums.org wrote:
> > >Cisco has generously donated a machine to me to do build tests with
> > >(only they don't really know it). I'll get things setup this week if I
> > >have time. I'll create -STABLE and -CURRENT jails. Anyone interested
> > >in receiving failure logs, let me know what port(s) you're interested
> > >in.
> >
> > I am insteresting for receive the failure logs as what you have and
>mostly
> > relating to Gnome2 stuff. It's just for if I happen can help on
>something
> > that I can solve, before you do. :-)
>
>Well, that's pretty much what this machine will be doing. I am willing
>to add others' GNOME-related ports, but it isn't a fast machine: PIII
>650 w/ ATA 33 drive and 512 MB of RAM.
>
> >
> > Is there somewhere I can find to read more about tinderbox? Right now,
>all I
> > can find is http://people.freebsd.org/~mike/tinderbox.html .. But, I
>would
> > like to have sort of how-to like handbook? I have a machine that is
>pretty
> > fast and I am planning to switch my desktop machine to server desktop
> > sometime when I get a new case. Current, I don't have case for it
>(broke by
> > shipped) and it has awful a lot of dust inside and need to avoid cats to
>get
> > in it when I move to the different place.
>
>I'd like to find a good set of howtos and scripts myself. I'm planning
>on building it from scratch with jail and some Perl scripts. I know des
>has one for building the src tree. I may have a look at that.
Cool, if you are creating something by scratch, can you post it somewhere?
:-)
So far what I have found following:
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~h.lambermont/snippets/tinderbox.txt
(plain/quickly/dirty guide for FreeBSD)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tinderbox/
Just show you in case if there's something useful.
> > When, I switch and I am more happy to enable everything on debug mode
> > (include -CURRENT), allow you have a shell account if you like to. It
>won't
> > happen soon, but sometime within lesser than two months.
> >
> > My personal server machine is:
> >
> > MSI K7 Master-S MS6341-030 266 DDR 6341-S
> > AMD AthlonXP 2000+/266 FSB
> > 256MB 32x64 PC2100 DDR RAM (2x = 512mb)
> > 36gigs ST-336706LW, Ultra160 SCSI Wide, 10k rpm (Seagate Cheetah)
> >
> > It was on sale, I bought all them together only for around $750 include
> > Antec workstation case with cheap 8mb video card and free shipment like
>a
> > year ago or so.
>
>Nice. Your machine will definitely beat mine.
Yup, it is.. My machine usually finish the build of kernel+buildworld (w/out
-j) within less than 35 minutes, while my desktop machine took hours and
hours. :-)
Cheers,
Mezz
>Joe
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mezz
> >
> > >Joe
> > >--
> > >Joe Marcus Clarke
> > >FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus at FreeBSD.org
> > >http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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