670707 - [tracking bug] linux build machine overhaul

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task)

Description

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

This is a tracking bug for our project to overhaul our linux build infrastructure.  The goals for this project are:

1. build 32bit and 64bit on one reference image
2. allow for each train to have its own versions of each dependency including android sdk/ndk
3. use package repositories for dependencies (yum)
4. be able to go from 0->production (likely using PXE+kickstart+puppet)

Anti goals:
1. building maemo on new image
2. building 3.6 on new image if it is a time sink

Comment 1

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

I have been able to build a very basic chroot environment on a centos6 box by running:

rpm --root=$PWD/centos-jail --initdb
sudo rpm --root=$PWD/centos-jail -Uvh http://mirrors.200p-sf.sonic.net/centos/6.0/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum --installroot=$PWD/centos-jail/ install yum

I am going to install the minimal subset of libraries needed to build firefox and see how the disk usage requirements look.  Currently, the base chroot is 284MB

Comment 2

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

This bug has been a good place to track some of the things that need to be improved in the next iteration of linux build slaves.  It's a tracking bug and a lot of the work that it would've tracked has been done as part of setting up mock for b2g builds