port install efficiency issue

[Scott Haneda]

Can we talk more about this?  I have the ability to host such a build  
farm.  Now, I could not host one machine, of every architecture, of  
every OS, I just do not have the room in colocation.

I do have quite a bit of room if we go 1U though.  So 2 1U machines, a  
PPC and a Intel, and I would imagine, that PPC machine could go away a  
lot sooner than we all think.  Mac Mini's could take it further, since  
they are so small, 8 of them can fit on a shelf and occupy no more  
than a few U's of space.  The damn power bricks are more an issue than  
anything else.  There have to be PPC Mini's out there to be had.

As long as the various OS versions could be virtualized, so we could  
have 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and forward virtualized on each machine,  
it would not at all be hard to come up with a authentication routine  
to allow builds to happen on whatever virtual interface you want.

I have the Ip space to spare, so each virtual machine could have it's  
own connection space, or we could do some simple dhcp pooling.  Static  
IP's are something I was alloted a /24 of, and do not see giving up 20  
or so of them being an issue.

Am I looking at this wrong, or would this be helpful?  Is this too  
much reliance on an outside party for core ports features?  I have had  
access to this data center for 9+ years or so, I do not plan on giving  
up that access at any time soon.  The bandwidth requirements are  
minimal, it would go unnoticed.

On Mar 22, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> A build server/farm would help, but who's going to host it?  I don't  
> believe
> that's one of the services MacOSForge provides.

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