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Updated, please have a look whether the proposed build schedule/conditions make sense.
Hi, is there any update on the topic? I can offer to add a the step to our weekly build script for Piratebox development and upload/sync the binaries later two a different location (or to development.piratebox.de ;) )
edit: I would do only the package builds for meshbox and not generate complete images. But hey what is the advantage? So ppl can use the package repository to install cjdns on already flashed images. - and you and everybody can create easily custom images using the ImageBuilder http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/obtain.firmware.generate
Let me know
Matthias
Hey thanks for the offer. We have a buildbot instance plus a few slaves at http://buildbot.meshwith.me/openwrt
At the moment I'm trying to figure out an issue with the smoketest Docker container -- it somehow assumes the host's filesystem instead of its own.
Hey, unfortunately I don't know anything about the buildbot configuration itself.. when I finished our script, somebody told me about it.... What I can understand so far, is that you create the x86 image and then run a short test. ~ correct?
And later you add other architectures like ar71xx , do you? But would you be able to run a test on different architectures?
So sorry, I totally forgot about the thread. You're correct, the smoketest builds an x86 image, establishes peering between two docker containers running the image, and then tries to ping each end.
We now build for a couple of targets: https://buildbot.meshwith.me/openwrt/builders, and all except the smoketest produce image and package snapshots: https://buildbot.meshwith.me/snapshots I'm running these on ar71xx and oxnas devices, and hopefull soon on omap (Beaglebone Black).
The realview target is especially interesting, because it will hopefully allow us to run tests in QEMU (qemu-system-arm -M realview-eb-mpcore).
We have a pretty good buildbot now, featuring the OpenWrt SDK and ImageBuilder, which cut the smoketest runtime down to 1 minute 43 seconds: http://buildbot.meshwith.me/openwrt/builders/cc-smoketest/builds/28
Regular packages and images are built even faster. The CPU and diskspace requirements are way smaller too. This means we can build on commodity hardware, and still expect fast results. The buildslaves should still be located on an SSD though.
Right now it builds packages for x86-generic and ar71xx-generic, and images for Docker and WNR2000v3. More targets will be added on demand.
I suggest we should build a hardened SDK for x86_64, realview and malta and use that for running the smoketest. See https://gist.github.com/dangowrt/738c57a58e1f70a70ab5 to get an idea how this could work.