[Hosting] Equipement donations and Inflow walk-through?

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:06:22PM -0500, Christian J Hedemark spoke thusly:
> Can we consider a box running VMware with multiple linux distros on it, and
> do binary builds and packages?  I.e. Red Hat and Mandrake RPM's, Debian
> packages, etc.  If this can all be scripted that would be awesome.  It would
> be a great service to the community for us to take some useful projects and
> provide automated binary build services for them.  Do the builds on a series
> of rotated cron jobs so that you don't have all the different virtual
> machines building at once.

Why? We can make .debs & .rpms on the same box. That's not an
issue. The cost of VMWare - which I highly doubt they'd give to us -
would be. And anyway, you need an X console to run VMWare. Just
getting an auto-reboot to handle that bit would be a bitch.

I'd rather build .rpms & debs for multiple archs (x86, alpha, mips,
source) than fight the good fight to get VMWare set up in the scenario
you propose. 

In the mean time, this is what I'd liek to see :

1) A central login to trilug.org, so that every machine has the same
   /home, /projects (or whatever) and CVS repository
2) A bug tracker (I'm leaning towards gnats after looking it over)
3) Tinderbox

Thoughts?

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