Re: news on CPAN-Smoker-OpenBSD
[email protected] ("Alceu R. de Freitas Jr." via cpan-testers-discuss)
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Indeed Yary, we need more people running OpenBSD. It's basically me and Nigel nowadays and I'm getting tired of kicking some serious butt to the top of the "contest" (http://stats.cpantesters.org/leaders/leaders-openbsd-all.html) :-D
Just kidding... again, we should have more boxes running on OpenBSD too, if not for the OS sake, but also for the bugs detected over there.
After two years of project I may say that we got errors that were not being generated on other OS, specially with those distributions that use C and XS. As I'm not a C programmer myself (shame is on me, I guess), I can only guess that this is related to the way OpenBSD is more restricted about what is allowed or not.
I'm not seeing many other improvements opportunities to this project right now, but I'm considering extending the provisioning automation to other UNIX-like OSes. If it comes out right, maybe this project itself will lose it's meaning.
Em sábado, 31 de março de 2018 22:26:47 BRT, yary <[email protected]> escreveu:
cool, thanks! OpenBSD needs some love- I'm not running any of those servers now but I do remember seeing some tests failing on that platform which passed on others back when I did a few years ago.
-y
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via cpan-testers-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
For those interested in running CPAN smokers on OpenBSD, I just merged changes on that project that allows to define an arbitrary number of users* inside the VM and define all options available to perlbrew to compile a new perl for those users (see perlbrew help install), all this inside the Vagrantfile.
Adding the options --noman and --notest with perlbrew to running the install with parallel, I was able to reduce provisioning time by about 30%. It should be simple to define different sets of configuration.
See https://github.com/ glasswalk3r/cpan-openbsd- smoker for more details.
Regards,
Alceu
* Just occurred to me that storage space might need to be extended in order to acommodate that too. Unless, of course, the cpan client is not configured to install the successfully tested distributions.