391496 - Create "staging" mac buildbot slave for Mozilla1.8 / FF2.0.0.x

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

We need a mac buildbot slave running on hardware/toolset that matches our current Mozilla1.8 / FF2.0.0.x environment on bm-xserve02.build.mozilla.org

bm-xserve02$ uname -a
Darwin bm-xserve02.mozilla.org 8.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.7.0: Fri May 26 15:20:53 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.6.76.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
bm-xserve02$ 


We are still trying to clarify exact inventory, but one suggestion is bm-xserve01.build.mozilla.org. Its being used (only lightly) by dmills repack tools. While bm-xserve01 looks like a good candidate right now, it still needs changes to become equivilent to bm-xserve02.

bm-xserve01$ uname -a
Darwin bm-xserve01.mozilla.org 8.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.5.0: Sun Jan 22 10:38:46 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.61.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
bm-xserve01$

Comment 1

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

We use xserve01 for managing the cluster, for the repack tool, for some build verification steps (at least, we used to; I believe l10n verification is still on there), and repacks.

I would seriously rather not change/use xserve01 for this purpose.

Let's find another PPC Mac, or maybe put this on a PPC mac that isn't as critical (1.8.0, maybe?)

Comment 2

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Coop: since we found fireball today, and it wasn't doing anything, would it be a good candidate for this purpose, instead of bm-vmware01?

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

IIRC, fireball is too old hardware-wise to be upgraded to 10.4, which would preclude it from generating useful things like universal binaries. We should verify this with IT.

Comment 4

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

It would be great if we could setup this mac buildbot slave without disturbing any existing production systems.

mrz will try reimaging fireball to see what happens. Tracking in bug#391742.

Comment 5

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

IT reimaged fireball and renamed to bm-xserver03.build.mozilla.org. I've now installed buildbot slave (macosx-1.8-slave1) on it. This staging buildbot slave is running fine, and building just fine.

Comment 6

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

typo fix: machine name is bm-xserve03.build.mozilla.org

Comment 7

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

oh, oppps... Nick, thanks for catching that!