[Pkg-r-builders] Hello, world

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 April 2017 at 11:13, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
| On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| [...]
| > 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. :)

Hah!  (I really like testing too, we could upgrade forward if need be).  And
am (cough, cough) happy with Ubuntu too but a Debian base works great!
 
| > 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.

That was one part I checked. We are "beefy" -- four Xeons, 32gb ram. About
30gb disk from what I remember (logged off).  Great start!
 
| Is there some documentation about creating a Debian/Ubuntu build server?
| What are the tools that we need?

Don, want to chime in?

The last feww time I did this from scratch (and it has been many years) I
used the pbuilder package and its tools (which is still my packaging
workflow).  Those already know many years ago about Ubuntu and different
flavours, so we could build (say) Debian unstable plus Ubuntu 'current' and
'most recent LTS' easily on one box.  All works with chroot off separate
directory trees in /var.

But there may be better tools now.

Dirk

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