[Pkg-r-builders] Hello, world

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
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> | 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 ...
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> | 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.

Sure, the official tools are the best. I was just wondering if building for
multiple distros is easier in Docker. Or for example if we can build
Ubuntu packages
on Debian stable.

Do you have some special needs wrt the server? E.g. number of processors,
disk space, etc? It is easy to upgrade the machine in the future, so we don't
have to overallocate resources now.

Do we also need a web server for serving the files? If yes, I would put that
on a separate server.

G.

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