Hi Laurent, Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2012, 17:55 +0100 schrieb Laurent GUERBY:
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 22:34 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Dear Laurent,
I’m one of the Debian maintainers of the main Haskell compiler GHC. GHC itself has little resources to maintain GHC on exotic architectures, but Debian tries hard to provide a Haskell ecosystem on these. It would help a lot if there were GHC buildbots on these architectures, and I would like to volunteer to manage these, but I’m still looking for suitable hardware.
Note that GHC is a big beast, it takes 29h and requires 4GB free disk space and preferably something around 6GB of RAM to build on a arm box.I think you need to take that into account when deciding upon this request. I’d already be happy if I can do a test run every week or so.
GHC is BSD licensed (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/license), my contributions are mostly Debian package maintenance and a few minor patches.
Hi Joachim,
How do you manage to build something needing 6GB of RAM on arm machines?
We don't have such machine in the farm :).
well, the machine has 1.5GB, but it seems to have plenty of swap. I can’t really tell because I cannot login on these boxes, they just automatically build Debian packages.
Currently all of our arm machines are offline because they tend to be not stable under load (the farm has 300 users), at least when I last looked. I'm open to advice on how to setup arm machines to be useful for build systems, if you have some Haskell/debian volunteers in France I have a few arm machines around (I'm in Toulouse, and travel to Paris & other cities from time to time).
Ok, it seems someone else is about to set up an ARM buildbot, so this is covered.
For other architectures just apply for a farm account (send me your ssh public key in attachment, and your prefered unix login).
Yes, that’d be nice. Username "nomeata", SSH key attached. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata