[Pkg-r-builders] Hello, world

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
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> All good from my side.

Great!

> | What do we want for hostname? The machine is currently called
> | debbuilder, but there is no DNS entry.
>
> Good question.  Also, what did you pick -- looks like Debian stable.

Yes, AFAIR that's what you told me. :)

> Now we need to work how/where/... to actually start. I am of course, like
> everybody else, terribly swamped.

I can continue with setting up a separate web server for the built packages.
I think this is good for security and also uptime, i.e. we can reboot
the builder machine,
but we hardly ever need to update or reboot the web server.
I'll also add a larger disk to the web server.

Is there some documentation about creating a Debian/Ubuntu build server?
What are the tools that we need?

G.

> Dirk
>
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