[ale] Build servers?

[Greg Freemyer]

Novell offers what is reputed to be very good build service.  They
tout it as a major contribution to the community.
http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service

They use it to build at least parts of the OpenSUSE distro.

I know Linux HA (heartbeat) uses it for their nightly builds and it
targets several distros (SUSE / fedeora / Mandriva / Debian minimum)
and hardware bases.

It is still getting routine updates / new features.

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/News

You may be able to use their service, or you can download the source
and create your own, but I think it is designed for a build farm, not
a single server.

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Build_Service_Installation_Tutorial

Greg

On 10/23/07, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Does anyone know where I can find information on setting up my own
> automatic build server?  A friend of mine and myself are trying to
> manage a (growing) number of packages, and it would be really nice if we
> could just send them off to our own build server that would build these
> packages for a target distribution, both x86 and x86-64 architectures.
>
> Basically, what I'd like to do is to have my server (which is presently
> vastly under-utilized) set up so that we can "dput" the source package
> at it, and we can just prep the source package and some time later it
> will spit out .debs for us.  The way that I understand it, the piece of
> software that does this is buildd, but I don't want buildd to be
> rebuilding all of Debian or Ubuntu or whatever it is that we're
> packaging for.  I just want it to manage the builds for the packages
> that we're working on, and pull dependencies from the base system as
> needed.
>
> Perhaps my google-fu stinks, but I can't find anything that gives me
> enough information to determine if buildd is even what I am looking for,
> or if there is something else that I am really in need of.  Anyone tried
> this before?
>
>         --- Mike
>
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