Re: Seeking feedback on a meta package builder
Hi,
On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 03:00:31PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > I want to know it precisely in the context of selecting a worker. I don't
> > want to schedule a task on a worker and later get back an answer "sorry I
> > can't handle your task", and then have to schedule it on some other
> > worker.
>
> I'm a little unsure what you mean precisely here. [...]
> Or do you want to locally decide whether your worker can handle
> it (e.g. using data previously acquired from the worker and cached on
> the scheduler)?
That's my plan, yes.
> I guess it is not the last variant, because you cannot validate the
> distribution in any way. I guess it also is not the first variant,
> because you don't want to call into every single worker for every single
> build object. Do you confirm that you want the second variant?
Yes.
> you can disable such a worker of course. Still, I suggest that you
> cannot rule out all possible worker-specific failure modes ahead of
> time.
Right.
Cheers,
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