llvm dev - Jun 2016 - [llvm-foundation] IMPORTANT: APT repo temporary switched off

On 1 June 2016 at 17:59, Dan Liew via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> I'm not surprised by the heavy load but a little more notice would
> have been nice. This has broken our CI builds for KLEE [1]. We (the
> KLEE developers) can fix this by moving our CI to run in an Ubuntu
> 14.04 environment where the LLVM version we currently require is part
> of the official Ubuntu repositories. So I guess this is the impetus we
> need to make the switch :)
Hi Dan,

I understand the problems that this have created, and I can see that
we still have people on IRC complaining about it.

But the server were really on its knees and everything else in it
(including all our source repositories) were just not working at all.
It was a hard decision, but one that had to be made, and soon.

> Regardless, thanks for having run this infrastructure for so long. Have you
considered publishing the packages to a PPA, so that the community can continue
to benefit from them without llvm.org having to support the hosting costs?
John,

I'm not well versed with PPAs, but if you have an alternative that we
could do and fix the package problem without reusing the same server,
I think we should pursue it.

cheers,
--renato

>> Regardless, thanks for having run this infrastructure for so long. Have
you considered publishing the packages to a PPA, so that the community can
continue to benefit from them without llvm.org having to support the hosting
costs?
>
> John,
>
> I'm not well versed with PPAs, but if you have an alternative that we
> could do and fix the package problem without reusing the same server,
> I think we should pursue it.
I've used PPAs as a developer before and I hated the experience but
that's probably because launchpad (the web interface) is garbage.

I've had a better experience with the OpenSUSE build service [1] which
despite its name lets you build for Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Redhat,
Fedora, CentOS and Arch Linux. You have to provide the packaging files
for each packaging system though. It also supports more architectures
than just x86_64.

[1] https://build.opensuse.org/

On 1 June 2016 at 18:34, Dan Liew <dan at su-root.co.uk>
wrote:
> I've used PPAs as a developer before and I hated the experience but
> that's probably because launchpad (the web interface) is garbage.
Indeed!

It seems that the people relying on our apt service wouldn't bother
much where we move it to. So, I'm ok with any solution that replaces
the functionality.

> [1] https://build.opensuse.org/
This also sounds interesting... I remember being impressed with
OpenSUSE's validation infrastructure in the past.

Would you be able to cook up some example, so that the rest of the
people that rely on it can check if it works for them, too?

cheers,
--renato