[1018] in Moira
Re: sipb-athena moira clients
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Oct 21 11:15:34 1996
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: danw@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:39:21 EDT."
<9610211439.AA01946@dcl.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:15:09 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I have no objections, but in the long run I think it would be a good
> idea to find ways to automate building moira binaries out of the
> rel-eng wash machines. Does rel-eng still have machines that could
> be used for netbsd and Linux build machines?
Hardware is not so much a problem as support. We have speed-queen,
intended to be a Linux build engine, and a few machines left over from
the PCUE effort, but I'm not sure if speed-queen is running anything
at all current right now, and there's no NetBSD build machine. SIPB
has a stated commitment to provide resources to MIT developers to
support Linux and NetBSD, so I don't think there's a problem in the
short term.
> I think we should make explicit what our long range support plan and
> commitments will be for the Linux and NetBSD binaries.
I certainly agree. As the release engineer, I don't make explicit
support plans and commitments, but since I do do the work, I will say
that I plan to push an effort to develop IS support for both Linux and
NetBSD as non-cluster platforms. Precisely what that means is still
in the air, but at a minimum it implies no hardware support and less
of a focus on the install system. These plans will probably take more
shape as I autoconfiscate the Athena hierarchy.
If I'm at all successful, there will have to be Linux and NetBSD wash
machines at that point.
As for building moira on the rel-eng wash machines, that raises a lot
of little issues which I don't have answers for right now. I'll let
it sit in my head for a while and come back to it later.
