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Date:      Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:29:42 +0200
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nightly snapshot for CURRENT ?
Message-ID:  <20200725122942.dcdfc0211bf6ab0706c86587@bidouilliste.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200724222839.GG61041@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 22:28:39 +0000
Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:14:52AM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 22:06:07 +0000
> > Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:31:35PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 22:04:07 +0200
> > > > Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 19:56:30 +0000
> > > > > Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 09:47:56PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > >  Hello all,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > >  I've just hit again something that I've hit (and probably others too)
> > > > > > > often.
> > > > > > >  If a change in base break some ports and it's snapshoted in the txz
> > > > > > > available at download.freebsd.org, you need to wait a week for the next
> > > > > > > tarball to be available.
> > > > > > >  Since poudriere uses the tarball when you setup a jail it means that
> > > > > > > the only solution you have is to recreate your jail by building it, and
> > > > > > > since building world nowdays is very expensive that delay your work too
> > > > > > > much.
> > > > > > >  Would it be possible to generate the tarballs every day instead of
> > > > > > > every week ? At least for tier-1 arches.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Let's revisit this sometime next week after 11.4 is out.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Glen
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > >  Sure, works for me.
> > > > > 
> > > > >  Thanks,
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >  Ping ?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I thought the artifacts from the jenkins builder for CI were sufficient.
> > > 
> > > Glen
> > > 
> > 
> >  Yes and no,
> > 
> >  I can add something to poudriere for getting the tarballs from the CI
> > artifacts but that won't be by default.
> > 
> 
> To be honest, that would be the preferred route, since updating the
> various *.txz distribution sets would break things like bootonly.iso,
> mini-memstick.img, and so on.

 Why would it break things ?

> In other words, we already have a system in place that generates these
> archive files, so I personally see no need to disrupt the "official"
> snapshot build process to appease a subset of the user base while
> unnecessarily adding a pain point for the rest.
> 
> Glen
> 

 If only the sets are generated each day I don't see how it can cause a
pain to anyone.

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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