Re: Bootstrapping ark on other hosts

Joel S writes:

> The rules can be summarized by this table.
> 
>            boot directory              target (our) directory
> host       @team:ark-dirs:ARK_BOOT@    @team:ark-dirs:OUR@
> ----       ------------------------    ----------------------
> gold       /usr/local                  /our
> arkboot    /our                        /d/arkboot
> other      /d/arkboot                  /our

I wonder if you could use the multiple-deploy-areas thing to
cut out one step; giving:

  gold       /usr/local                  /our, /d/arkboot
  other      /d/arkboot                  /our

For the boot-ish packages, just give them <file-namespaces>
something like

   <file-namespaces><list>
     <item>/our</item>
     <item>/d/arkboot</item>
   </list></file-namespaces>

plus all extra stuff in package/ALL
(e.g. <namespace-deploy-map>), and build away on 'gold'.
When done, you have what you want in /d/arkboot, as a
side-effect.

(There may be issues with Python, which does *weird* things
about trying to find where its libraries are.)

Maybe you've already found the flaw in this plan?

> Additional hand waving is required to support multiple
> hardware platforms or operating systems.

Yes :-)  It might be as simple as a

   <file-namespaces>
    <constraint><host-spec>sidai:hppa-hpux11</host-spec></constraint>
    <list>
     <item>/our</item>
     <item>/d/arkboot/hpux</item>
    </list>
   </file-namespaces>

sort of thing.  Will be very interested how you get on.

Will


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