[oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

[Andrew M. Hettinger]

Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote on 09/04/2012 07:29:09 PM:
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Nick Zivkovic <zivkovic.nick at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>> 2) document every single IPS failure and either fix the
> >>> packages or the IPS code (depend on what caused the failure), and
> >>
> >> First thought here is that it needs to be in the bug tracker, but that
may
> >> not be easily accessible either. Maybe a sub-page on the wiki?
> >
> > Either should be fine. FreeBSD records their ports build failures on
> > their wiki. I think Gentoo recorded this on a bug tracker. Wiki is
> > probably easiest.
>
> Jenkins can automate all of that. For $JOB, I manage various products,
> millions of lines of code in total with it. The nice thing is that it
> will "blame" whoever breaks the build. It also provides an easy to
> read dashboard, and notify only on status change, not on every build
> that fails etc. Plus it can post to a URL, so a few lines of python
> code with web.py and you have an interface to a wiki or bug tracker.
>
> Francois
>

I spent some time thinking about this today, and you are right.

A Jenkins server which with a plugin to publish via IPS to a sandbox server
(or use the build system's IPS publishing, where available), and one to
make a zone on the build server to work in would not only do everything I
want, but exceed it. I guess what I care about is less the build system,
and more psudo-CI.

I would also need a way to promote builds, once working (and again once
tested, sandbox->testing->stable, which means I really don't care much
about blame. This worked well for SJ). I think I'll fire up a couple of VMs
and get this working.

I have used Jenkins before, it's really an awesome bit of software. For the
life of me I don't know why I didn't realize Kohsuke Kawaguchi had already
done most of the work to make me happy again! Guess I just got myself stuck
in the mindset that we have too many build systems and didn't realize that
that isn't what I am really frustrated by at all.



That said, I think what Nick was talking about was not a build failure, but
common issues IPS itself can have. I've seen a few (rare) times where it
will just spit out a call-stack. Haveing a goto page of potental problems
and fixes/workarounds would help.


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