[Freedesktop-sdk] Artifact caching for freedesktop SDK project

[Laurence Urhegyi]

Sam,

Sorry there's been no response on this one, I've been away.

This will absolutely be useful, so thanks for raising it.

Any volunteers to set this up with Sam?

I can help work out the logistics of sorting out the account and the 
machine etc.

Laurence


On 03/11/17 18:28, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had a look at Valentin's manual-rewrite branch today, and the rewrite 
> of the base SDK looks really good but it's quite painful to have to 
> build everything myself in order to try it out. So I want to raise the 
> topic of artifact caching.
> 
> BuildStream supports pushing and pulling artifacts from a remote OSTree 
> artifact cache[1]. This means that a continuous builder can build every 
> branch of freedesktop-sdk.git and push artifacts to the cache, and then 
> users who want to just hack on some part of the bootstrap don't have to 
> start by building everything from scratch.
> 
> Setting up an artifact cache is fairly simple; we just need a machine 
> with a big disk that's connected to the internet.
> 
> I already maintain an OSTree artifact cache for a different project, 
> it's accessible at <https://ostree.baserock.org/>, it's hosted at 
> CityCloud and is paid for and maintained by Codethink.
> 
> It's possible that we could set up another machine at CityCloud for this 
> project -- is that of interest?
> 
> Sam
> 
> [1]: https://buildstream.gitlab.io/buildstream/artifacts.html#artifacts
>