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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:08:45 +0000
From:      Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Distributed poudriere
Message-ID:  <e67f3445-c4bb-48f2-df4c-616d79231e07@gjunka.com>
In-Reply-To: <38edd5f9-4a84-a8a6-2439-d54fb826982d@gjunka.com>
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On 29/11/2018 19:12, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to run poudriere in an agent/server setup? Where one 
> central server maintains a distfiles folder for already compiled 
> packages and agents compile packages fetching and installing from the 
> central server dependencies?
>
Just to make it more clear, I am asking about the build process. 
Poudriere starts the specified amount of jails to build packages in 
parallel. In each jail it then install dependencies by fetching them 
from the distfiles folder. After the build is done a new package is 
created and uploaded to the distfiles folder to be used by builds that 
require it.

This process is CPU-core-bound, i.e. with 32/64 threads cores it can't 
really build more than 64 packages in parallel. And systems with so many 
cores are really expensive. But the whole process is inherently 
distributed (as long as the amount of packages is big enough so that 
they can be build in parallel).

Being able to build on multiple cheaper systems with less CPU cores per 
system over the network seems like a good idea, no?

GrzegorzJ




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