[Pkg-r-builders] Hello, world

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 March 2017 at 09:38, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
| On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| [...]
| > That;s annoying but at least we'd have decent connecticity.
| >
| > I see two possible alternatives:
| >
| >  -- cloud (and Gabor may be able to speak to this some more)
| >
| >     -- either just begging and using his Azure etc lot for now
| 
| It's not my Azure. :) But yes, this is nice and easy and Microsoft's
| support is plenty, for now.
| Two smallish issues:
| - The support is until the end of 2018. But it will be either renewed,
| or we'll have
|   sg else instead. I guess.

Yes, that sounds good.

| - Using Azure is painful. But if we just need a Linux server with ssh
| access, that
|   is mostly OK. :)
| 
| Do you want me to create a server? Which Debian version is best? 

Debian stable?  I always used testing because of an urge to get newer packages.
Could also use Ubuntu LTS (16.04) or current 16.10.

It should not really matter as ...

| Will we be building in Docker?

... we could (your scripts) but all "we" have done in the past use the tools
Debian has which predate Docker: pbuilder etc pp.  They are a little
lighterweight, and have 'tools that build them'.  On the marging we may be
close to indifferent with a lean towards using the distro-native tools.

My $0.02, maybe Michael and Don want to chime in too...

Dirk

| 
| G.
| 
| 
| >     -- renting at aws, rackspace, gandi, ... as for $50-$100/mon we should
| >        get something decent
| >
| >  -- crazy idea:  either replace or complement my aging server here
| >
| > I have been accessing the server here for years from the outside. Not ideal
| > but a fallback. Over time we find a real hosting sponsor.
| >
| > Dirk
| >
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