[Sugar-devel] [sugar-build] Landing the chroot branch

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 10 July 2013 13:16, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Daniel,
>>
>> I am worried about two points:
>>
>> * How this change impact regarding to disk space/bandwidth usage?
>>
>
> At the moment we are downloading 264 MB to create the chroot (installing
> the deps on a default Fedora installation with master sugar-build downloads
> 84 MB). Disk usage of the chroot is 1.9 GB after cleaning yum (which we
> should fix broot to do).
>
> IMO it's acceptable. Also I don't have numbers but I'm pretty sure that on
> distro != Fedora19 you end up downloading/using disk substantially less in
> the chroot branch then in master.
>
>
>> * If the different build bots will use a chroot to a single (F19) distro,
>> will this change mask problems regarding to compatibility issues?
>>
>
> I'm not planning to maintain buildbots for each distribution. With the new
> scheme the code that could be affected by the distro is very little and
> shouldn't change much once it's solid. So I think we can probably deal with
> that without automatic testing.
>
> I suppose you mean that we wouldn't be testing the sugar code base
> compatibility with multiple distros. That's true and it's a bit of a
> downside. Though I can't remember any distro specific bug that we found in
> sugar since I wrote sugar-build... it has always been just matter of
> installing the required deps. So I don't think it's too much of a problem.
>


IMHO, are two important downsides.
May be I don't understand the benefit this solution add.

Gonzalo
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