User:Paul.W/july2010

05 Monday

• new builders received and configuration begun, one new builder on line as arm4
• meeting with Chris
• Interview

06 Tuesday

• arm4 ready and enabled in Koji
• create single image for deployment on builders

07 Wednesday

• Meeting - status update of projects.
• configure new builders, arm5, 6
• Troubleshooting builds.

08 Thursday

• Troubleshooting builds.
• set up Plugs on new rack.

09 Friday

• Blog regarding ARM Build Sys status.
• Troubleshooting builder problems, all local builders working.

12 Monday

• Planning discussion with Chris.
• Attempts to check out of CVS.
• Added SCM functionality.

13 Tuesday

• Review and successful build on pack 'R'
• Troubleshooting Koji Builder issue, permissions on directories.

14 Wednesday

• Started patching packages: mysql, nss, bickley, mutter, clutter-gtk, coreutils, ctemplate.

15 Thursday

• continued patching and testing packages.

16 Friday

• Packages, packages, packages. Continuing through the list.

20 Tuesday

• meeting with Chris
• purposed changes to Tags and additional Targets
• Work on devel branch packages.

21 Wednesday

• create repo task moved to New Zealand.
• added additional tags and targets.
• troubleshooting build failures with build-previous script
• research using rsync for back ups of Hong Kong to Scotland.

22 Thursday

• continued attempting to execute build-previous script
• added new tags/build targets
• troubleshooting builders, space issues, resized lvms
• testing backup with rsync.

23 Friday

• unable to fix nfs issue with arm5, had to reboot Hong Kong.
• reboot caused problems with all but one builder, troubleshooting kojid not starting.
• add arm.koji.fedoraproject.org to all builders hosts file, issue was with name resolution.
• attempting to add upstart to dist-f13 to resolve dep issues.
• after many attempts, upstart was added however it created a problem with initscripts as it lists a version conflict. Imported the latest version of initscripts to resolve issue. Sendmail still has a dep problem , but upstart and initscripts no longer mentioned.
• did test for pjs group

26 Monday

• build-previous script executed on the 23rd, after importing latest db4 all builds fail due to issue with dependencies.
• imported newer versions of rpm, cyrus-sasl, perl and pam to resolve dep issues.
• work on devel branch packages.

27 Tuesday

• packages imported, added db4 back, again builds fail. removed again to find correct package versions.
• finished all devel branch packages that built on both platforms.

28 Wednesday

• packages with dependency issues rebuilt manually using mock on the builders.
• imported into koji, db4-4.8 re-added.
• paperwork required by HR, ie transcript arranged with Registration.
• blog about Koji breakage and packages needing attention for arm (patching).

29 Thursday

• with the addition of compat-db koji working again
• execute build-previous script and react to issues as they arise, ie version mismatch.
• changes made to tags
• started to package mkrootfs

30 Friday

• additional correspondence and telephone conversation with HR.
• version mismatch issue resolved.
• re-queue all tasks that failed due to version mismatch problem.
• additional changes to tags to prevent version mismatch for packages from dist-f11, dist-f12
• filed bugzilla report#619895 for avahi