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Hello!
Thanks for your help!
2014-03-06 9:32 GMT+02:00 Daniel Bartholomew
I was able at last to create a set of unstable sid VMs using a variant of what you suggested. I had trouble with installing from testing iso files, similar to the issues I experienced with unstable iso files. So what I ended up doing was starting with our existing wheezy VMs and then updating them first to jessie and then to sid. The builders in Buildbot are called: kvm-deb-sid-amd64 and kvm-deb-sid-i386
Good, now the virtual machines exist...
I ran into an issue with getting the thrift libs to compile on the amd64 version, so I know that at least that bit is not right (there may be other issues). But the VMs are there and in Buildbot which is better than yesterday when they weren't in there at all. :)
..but it seems you just duplicate the existing model of build bot VMs. It is of course good to have more VMs that build and test MariaDB bzr commits, but we need a little bit more here in preparation of the debian/* merge from Debian back to MariaDB trunk. Kristian wrote on Feb 4th:
And while you are at it, please also consider setting up an instance 'kvm-deb-sid-pbuilder-amd64' that provides a Debian unstable
Daniel, can you prepare new sets of VMs for Ubuntu trusty and Debian sid? Then I can try to setup Buildbot to do these builds.
I assumed this meant that Kristian would finish the setup. Kristian, are you following this? You you Daniel please check out the thread called "MariaDB" on maria-developers starting here: https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg06747.html https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg06765.html https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg06767.html https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg06771.html I guess the definition of what we want to achieve was vague and the instructions terse. I'll try to write a more detailed list of commands and setups that needs to be done, but I unfortunately don't have time to do that today or tomorrow, so it will be next week.. sorry
One question: Because these VMs are what they are, should I plan on refreshing them periodically so that they stay current? If so, how often should I do it?
Install unattended-upgrades and let the package do it's work automatically. For some installs that do not run automatically you might want to manually run apt-get upgrade / apt-get dist-upgrade every few months. Pbuilder upgrade could be run maybe weekly. -- Check out our blog at http://seravo.fi/blog and follow @ottokekalainen