Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Imminent release...

[Justin Patrin]

On 8/2/07, Richard Levitte <address@hidden> wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:49:41 +0200, Thomas Keller 
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> me> Richard Levitte schrieb:
> me> > Another question is, do we want slaves to work on both the release
> me> > branch and the main trunk, AND ARE THE SLAVE BUILD ADMINS OK WITH
> me> > THAT?
> me>
> me> Can one and the same slave build two different branches? How are
> me> revisions supposed to be distinguished from these branches?
>
> Sure, all I have to do is create another set of build directories.
> You'll notice that your slave has a directory full-i386-suse93, right?
> All I need to do is set up another called, say, release-i386-suse93,
> and make sure it pulls and updates from net.venge.monotone.release.0.36
> or something like that, the rest is the same as before.
>
> Note that each build dir has its own database, so it means there's
> going to be a bit of duplication.  Just the database with the main
> branch take about 71MB right now, and that means it's going to be
> another 71MB.
>
> I don't know a way to change that.  The different build slaves are
> meant to be self contained, and duplicate databases like that are the
> consequence.
>
> With that in mind, are you still ok with such a scheme?  How about the
> other admins?
>
> me> In any case, go ahead. I'm ok with it for the suse build slave.
>

I'd be ok with one more branch being built. Adding any more, however,
would probably not be great...

-- 
Justin Patrin