[darcs-users] help wanted build Mac packages for darcs releases

[Petr Rockai]

Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:

> On 16 September 2012 13:20, Petr Rockai <me at mornfall.net> wrote:
>> the requirement for hydra would be to have a process to build OS X
>> virtual machine images automatically. I have implemented this process
>> for Windows, so I would expect this to be reasonably possible with OS X,
>> although I am not sure I can get OSX licences as easily as Windows ones.
>> Any hints on this?
>
> Any chances of getting a departmental Mac mini or something?
> If not, maybe we could do some limited fund-raising

There are some issues with this:

1) I would still need to run Linux on the Mac and run OSX VMs. This
sounds like lot of trouble.
2) I can't rack-mount a mac mini (nor any other piece of Apple
hardware that I know of).

The problem with running builds on the "straight" OS/hardware is that
they are non-reproducible, and in addition to that, the system would
need substantial manual maintenance (like it was in the case of
buildbot).

All in all, it seems more likely to build Darwin images and use those to
run the builds. But darwinbuild only runs on OSX, so I would need a
reliable source of bootable Darwin-based ISOs or somesuch. Didn't find
much in this respect so far.

Petr

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