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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:55:37PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Nov 12, Arwed von Merkatz [v.merkatz AT gmx.net] wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:32:32PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> > > On Nov 12, George Sherwood [pilot AT beernabeer.com] wrote:
> > > > Before the server crash we were updating the test tarball every 6 
> > > > hours
> > > > or so automatically.  Now that the new server is working are we going 
> > > > to
> > > > go back to this system?
> > > 
> > > People are working on it, but we're expecting to do it differently.  The
> > > old system had the signing keys on the server itself, which quite a lot 
> > > of
> > > people were uncomfortable with.  There was also just one signing key 
> > > that
> > > was shared.  The new one will have each signer having their own keys, 
> > > and
> > > the private keys will only be on their own machines.
> > > 
> > > Arwed is working on setting up his end to do updates automatically 
> > > since it
> > > falls under his area, until he has that I'll continue to update them
> > > manually daily.  If I get time I'll look at automating my updates, but 
> > > I'm
> > > still doing a lot of work to get the new server to a completed state.  
> > > The
> > > front end is generally done but the backend is not.  :-)
> > 
> > Err ... I am? I never said anything about that. Stable and stable-rc
> > were never autogenerated and we'll keep it like that. Test tarballs
> > should be autogenerated as they were imho.
> 
> Well, it was in the PERFORCE change 68915 thread, where I said I'd been
> doing all the grimoire updates manually but was asking you or Seth to take
> over getting them updated and going normally, and you asked for the
> details, and I sent them.  I meant all the grimoires, since that's what I'm
> currently doing manually.  Sorry if it wasn't clear.  (And we need those
> mails moved to a commits ML... *poke Eric*)
> 
> I definitely agree we want the test tarballs automated.  I thought the
> discussions on IRC* were still around getting them automated from a
> developer machine and (eventually) using developer-specific keys.  We have
> to recreate the scripts anyway, switching the way it's done won't really be
> difficult.  We just can't switch the keys used til people have sufficient
> time to get the new keys into sorcery-pubkeys.
> 
> Regardless, test is *not automated* right now.  None of the grimoires are.
> I'll get my own process automated if I get a chance but I'd really rather
> you or Seth take that all over and get it going.

Ok, that definitely wasn't clear to me before, thanks for clarifying it
:)
I'll see if I can get something setup here, but for automated updates we
should have something running on the server or on some other machine
that's always on.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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