Re: Offering GHC builder build slaves

Hi,

On Apr 8, 2014, at 12:17, Páli Gábor János wrote:

2014-04-08 13:59 GMT+02:00 Alain O'Dea :

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I have four (one in slings due to a busted PSU) reasonably powerful (if old) Dell Precision T3500s that can provide a variety of x86 and x86_64 OS builds on Xeon. They currently run SmartOS, but they can run other x86 and x86_64 guests.

I think the best would be if we could cover all the possible and probable combination of architectures and platforms and avoid the redundancies.

So far, we have the following: Solaris x86,

I think SmartOS can reasonably stand in for Illumos and Solaris x86_64 and can run Ubuntu x86_64 as a KVM guest.

Linux/arm and Linux/ppc64 (by Karel), FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64 (by myself), and Mateusz has written me about setting up a Linux x86 builder on Gentoo. We could certainly use Linux x86_64 builders, so as 32-bit and 64-bit Mac OS X and Windows ones. Regarding Linux, there might be builders for each of the distributions, however, I am not sure if need to store downloadable snapshots for all of them.

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I'll send my first build slave username and password off list to you later today.

You do not have to, I can generate both for you, once the OS and the architecture is known.

Cool, that's easier. I usually use AlainODea or alainodea as my base username, but that's immaterial. The two build slaves I intend to run are: - x86_64 Solaris (on SmartOS) - x86_64 Linux (on Ubuntu as a SmartOS KVM guest)

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Once I have that working I'll document the current process for volunteering and setting up build slaves.

I think this has been already covered on the GHC Developers' wiki, there:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Builder

Good point. It needs some minor tweaks since the volunteers need to request a username and password by providing their OS and architecture to the list rather than sending their username and password to the list.

Note that this page is also linked from the front page of the wiki.