Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 01:46:28 -0400 From: "Mezz bsdforums.org" <reigncracks@hotmail.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New build machine Message-ID: <F2823KqiReEJcbQVUyO00032f9f@hotmail.com>
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>On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 19:08, Mezz bsdforums.org wrote: > > >Cisco has generously donated a machine to me to do build tests with > > >(only they don't really know it). I'll get things setup this week if I > > >have time. I'll create -STABLE and -CURRENT jails. Anyone interested > > >in receiving failure logs, let me know what port(s) you're interested > > >in. > > > > I am insteresting for receive the failure logs as what you have and >mostly > > relating to Gnome2 stuff. It's just for if I happen can help on >something > > that I can solve, before you do. :-) > >Well, that's pretty much what this machine will be doing. I am willing >to add others' GNOME-related ports, but it isn't a fast machine: PIII >650 w/ ATA 33 drive and 512 MB of RAM. > > > > > Is there somewhere I can find to read more about tinderbox? Right now, >all I > > can find is http://people.freebsd.org/~mike/tinderbox.html .. But, I >would > > like to have sort of how-to like handbook? I have a machine that is >pretty > > fast and I am planning to switch my desktop machine to server desktop > > sometime when I get a new case. Current, I don't have case for it >(broke by > > shipped) and it has awful a lot of dust inside and need to avoid cats to >get > > in it when I move to the different place. > >I'd like to find a good set of howtos and scripts myself. I'm planning >on building it from scratch with jail and some Perl scripts. I know des >has one for building the src tree. I may have a look at that. Cool, if you are creating something by scratch, can you post it somewhere? :-) So far what I have found following: http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~h.lambermont/snippets/tinderbox.txt (plain/quickly/dirty guide for FreeBSD) http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tinderbox/ Just show you in case if there's something useful. > > When, I switch and I am more happy to enable everything on debug mode > > (include -CURRENT), allow you have a shell account if you like to. It >won't > > happen soon, but sometime within lesser than two months. > > > > My personal server machine is: > > > > MSI K7 Master-S MS6341-030 266 DDR 6341-S > > AMD AthlonXP 2000+/266 FSB > > 256MB 32x64 PC2100 DDR RAM (2x = 512mb) > > 36gigs ST-336706LW, Ultra160 SCSI Wide, 10k rpm (Seagate Cheetah) > > > > It was on sale, I bought all them together only for around $750 include > > Antec workstation case with cheap 8mb video card and free shipment like >a > > year ago or so. > >Nice. Your machine will definitely beat mine. Yup, it is.. My machine usually finish the build of kernel+buildworld (w/out -j) within less than 35 minutes, while my desktop machine took hours and hours. :-) Cheers, Mezz >Joe > > > > > Cheers, > > Mezz > > > > >Joe > > >-- > > >Joe Marcus Clarke > > >FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org > > >http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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