[Freedesktop-sdk] Artifact caching for freedesktop SDK project

[Adam Jones]

On 28/11/17 17:35, Laurence Urhegyi wrote:
> 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 volunteer some time to help with this.
>
> I can help work out the logistics of sorting out the account and the 
> machine etc.
     Ta Laurence
>
> 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
>>
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