Debian Auto re-builder
jeroen@d.o got me thinking about autobuilding debian.
an example page
http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/architecture.php?a=hppa
In an ideal world what I would really like in a Debian auto builder
- controled via a central place and farms out work to others.
- for example, on my desktop i run the server process, which looks at a list of currently available client machines to build on.
- on the clients, it's just an apt-get install autobuild-client or something
in fact, distcc might be want I want in reality, but the client turning on/off would need to be really easy.
- downloads source a package at a time as much as possible to avoid having to have huge gobs of disk around.
- can send results to a local webserver, maybe exporting an RSS feed of failed packages or something.
- has the ability to use different compilers (e.g. intel compiler) and run scripts easily (e.g. catching comipler warnings)
