Re: pbulk parallel builds

["Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:49:29PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2017-06-05 at 18:49 BST, Benny Siegert wrote:
> 
> > Hey Jonathan!
> > 
> > > Joerg had issues with it and I'd prefer we sorted out a design we're
> > > all happy with first.  Also as I mentioned I don't actually use this
> > > patch myself, and am still using my previous set of patches:
> >
> > Is there a reason why you are not using the patch that you are
> > proposing to commit? That would give it a certain amount of
> > additional testing, no?
> 
> Mostly because it'll be a reasonable amount of work to update pkgbuild
> to use it, and will be complicated by the fact I'll need to support
> both sets of patches so needs to be done cleanly.  I don't want to
> have to commit to this work until I'm sure we'll go ahead with the
> proposed design.
> 
> I have however tested it in my NetBSD VM.
> 
> The other reason is that I actually want people who have no or little
> experience to test it.  This stuff has lots of sharp edges, and it's
> too easy for me to have too much inside knowledge and work around
> things without thinking, whereas new users will very quickly tell me
> what they don't understand or what doesn't work or what would be
> better from a new user point of view.

I'll create an alternative method of making the chroot sandboxes using
jmmv's sandboxctl(8) utility.  That should highlight any weaknesses in
the way that your changes are tied to mksandbox.

Regards,
-- 
Johnny C. Lam
jlam%NetBSD.org@localhost