Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:22:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47029 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201507202022.t6KKMqMP041532@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Mon Jul 20 20:22:51 2015 New Revision: 47029 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47029 Log: Add Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>' official packages report. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Mon Jul 20 20:00:38 2015 (r47028) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Mon Jul 20 20:22:51 2015 (r47029) @@ -2844,4 +2844,120 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>Official Packages</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Bryan</given> + <common>Drewery</common> + </name> + <email>bdrewery@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name>Ports Management Team</name> + <email>portmgr@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Sean</given> + <common>Bruno</common> + </name> + <email>sbruno@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://pkg-status.FreeBSD.org">Package Status</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>x86 Packages</p> + + <p>With the help of the FreeBSD Foundation providing more + build servers, we have increased the build frequency of + packages from weekly to about every other day. Packages are + provided for all currently supported releases and head on + <tt>i386</tt> and <tt>amd64</tt> from the ports head branch, + and quarterly packages for &os; 10.1 and 9.3 release + branches.</p> + + <p>We are using eight different systems for building packages. + The build process has been fully automated and is + more fault tolerant now. More details on this will be + available in an upcoming &os; Journal article. About eleven + servers for daily test builds. To make it simpler for + everyone to find the status and results of these builds, the + <a href="http://pkg-status.FreeBSD.org">pkg-status.FreeBSD.org</a>; + has been developed by Bryan Drewery. Its intent is to show + all systems and builds in nearly real-time. It is currently + in a beta stage and will be improved over time. At the time + of this writing, it is temporarily down, but will be restored + soon.</p> + + <p>ARM/MIPS Packages</p> + + <p>The FreeBSD Foundation purchased servers for the project to + begin building and providing ARM and MIPS packages. These + packages are currently built from x86 systems using QEMU. + More details on this can be found in the + <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/532.en.html">BSDCan + 2015 Presentation</a>. The work to do this has been + shepherded by Sean Bruno and has had help from many people + including but not limited to Juergen Lock, Stacey Son, Ed + Maste, Peter Wemm, Alexander Kabaev, Adrian Chadd, Baptiste + Daroussin, Bryan Drewery, Dimitry Andric, Andrew Turner, + Warner Losh, Ian Lapore, and Brooks Davis.</p> + + <p>We are currently targetting packages for head on + <tt>mips</tt>, <tt>mips64</tt> and <tt>armv6</tt>. Each set + takes one to two weeks to build on QEMU. They will be + provided on a best effort basis for now on the default + repository of <tt>pkg.FreeBSD.org</tt>.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + FreeBSD Foundation (package building hardware) + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Portmgr met at BSDCan and decided that the default package + set should be provided based on the Ports Quarterly branch. + This will provide more stable packages by default and allow + users who wish to have the bleeding edge to use the head + packages. The Quarterly branch is currently updated in full + every three months from head and otherwise receives security + and critical fixes. Moving towards this plan will also + require a change to how we update the Quarterly branch. + More details will be provided later.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Performance and stability of QEMU continues to improve. + Native cross-building support in ports needs more work and + testing to be viable.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>The package builds currently run from a <tt>crontab</tt> + every other day. Some of the builds take two hours + (incremental), while others can take up to 30 hours for a + full build. An open task here is to implement a better + OS ABI check to see if incremental builds can be done, or if + a full rebuild is needed when an SA/EN comes out. The plan + for this is detailed at + <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2015-April/017025.html">https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2015-April/017025.html</a>.</p>; + + <p>Another open task is to implement a master queue + coordinator to start the next builds as soon as all others + are done. This will also allow improving the pkg-status + site's view of everything.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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