[Pkg-r-builders] Hello, world

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 March 2017 at 20:36, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
| On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| [...]
| > | 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.
| 
| 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.

"Yes we can!"  With the pbuilder tool, these are just different directories
into which pbuilder descends.  It's all just a chroot call internally.
Michael also covers multiple Ubuntu versions on the same box; one can a few
Debian flavours just as well.
 
| 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.

"More is better than fewer" esp if we have to catch up towards 10k packages.
But I would think it is not too dissimilar from what rhub uses though you
likely spread over more machines.  We may get by with one.
 
| Do we also need a web server for serving the files? If yes, I would put that
| on a separate server.

I never bother with an extra server. Apache or nginx is pretty light, no?

Dirk

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