Re: Conceptual talk about distributed pbulk on exotic port

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 08:59:07AM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * 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.

There is already a mechanism for that -- sync_buildlog.

Joerg