[LEDE-DEV] trying to cover costs on my bit of the build cluster

[David Lang]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:

> Hi Bastian,
>
> the usual approach is the following:
>
> - Install "buildbot-slave", on Debian/Ubuntu this is as easy as running
>  "apt-get install buildbot-slave"
> - Install remaining packages required for build, I attached the package
>  list exported from one of our slaves
> - Setup a slave and point it to our master (replace "myslave" and
>  "mypassword"):
>  $ buildbot create-slave --umask=022 /var/lib/buildbot/slaves/myslave \
>      builds.lede-project.org:9990 myslave mypassword
>  $ chown -R buildbot:nogroup /var/lib/buildbot/slaves/myslave
> - Adjust /etc/default/buildslave (mainly set enabled to 1, and adjust
>  basedir, leave options and prefixcmd empty)
> - Send me the name and the password offlist so I can register the slave
>
> Builds will require between 30 and 40GB of storage. No externally
> reachable ports are required, the slave will pull and push the required
> files itself.

How do we set how much work it does? (or is this only good for a dedicated slave 
and you use cgroups or similar to limit a container/vm)

I think a lot of people would be willing to contribute some percentage of a 
system, a smaller group can contribute entire systems.

David Lang