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Re: scratch buildds



On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:34:19PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On 6/15/19 12:28 AM, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > Adam Borowski wrote:
> > 
> >> Thus, what would you guys say about a new distribution, "scratch"?  It would
> >> be a kind of extra-experimental that doesn't put its build results anywhere
> >> persistent.  Throwing away built .debs would be ok, keeping just logs.
> > 
> > Perhaps I'm missing something but would introducing more architectures
> > to the salsa.debian.org continuous integrations runners not serve
> > mostly the same purpose? The developer's workflow would simply be to
> > push a commit and it would be built and tested automatically.
> afaik the CI runners use k8s to schedule their work, so I think using
> the default CI stuff from gitlab requires an architecture supported by
> k8s. arm64 is supported and I know that some people cross-compiled k8s
> for mips(el?), but I doubt its widely supported.
> 
> Am I missing something?

No, that's not the case. That is, it is *possible* to use kubernetes to
do GitLab CI, but it is in no way a requirement.

gitlab-runner has various executors to do stuff, and running something
inside docker (with or without kubernetes) is just one of the many
options.

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