Re: Conceptual talk about distributed pbulk on exotic port

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2018-07-05 at 14:42 BST, J. Lewis Muir wrote:

> On 07/04, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > * On 2018-07-04 at 07:32 BST, Julien Savard wrote:
> > 
> > >    3. Still run on sparc hardware but with the help of emulated sparc
> > >    systems (via qemu-system-sparc) and with one or 2 amd64 vm/host for the
> > >    scan phase ( build_clients and scan_clients in pbulk.conf). All will mount
> > >    some NFS filesystem for pkgsrc.Complicated setup but it might works.
> > 
> > I would choose this option, but just use qemu for everything.  Spin up
> > as many processes as your hosts will take.  Our pbulk modifications:
> > 
> >   https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commits/joyent/feature/pbulk/trunk
> > 
> > include patches such as:
> > 
> >   https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commit/b3306098b1f5a4214ffcb13ba077273408d3d034
> 
> Hi, Jonathan!
> 
> Any chance of getting patches like this into upstream?

Joerg isn't keen on them, so we'll need to come to an agreement at
some point before we see something similar in pkgsrc proper.

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