[Pkg-r-builders] Hello, world

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 April 2017 at 12:07, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
| On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| [...]
| > 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.

It's probably worth waiting for Don / having a quick virtual chat, but the
unavoidable Google query leads to a number of tutorials and things build on
top (ie git-pbuilder).

Short one at Debian:
   https://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora/Packaging/pbuilder?action=show&redirect=Diaspora%2Fpackaging%2Fpbuilder
Longer one at Ubuntu
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto

But "official" Debian uses dak and other tools
   https://wiki.debian.org/DakHowTo

Dirk

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