[Pkg-r-builders] Hello, world

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
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> That was one part I checked. We are "beefy" -- four Xeons, 32gb ram. About
> 30gb disk from what I remember (logged off).  Great start!

Yes, the idea is that there is a smallish SSD for the system, and a
large-ish HDD for storage. It is fairly simple
to migrate to bigger SSD/HDD if needed.

> | 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.

OK, I'll look at these tomorrow, unless Don tells me otherwise.

G.

> But there may be better tools now.
>
> Dirk
>
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