builddmaster needs to be able to deal with buildds that can host builds for more than one arch

Bug #285206 reported by Adam Conrad
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
William Grant

Bug Description

As we move forward with plans to pool buildds, we'd like to be able to make all x86 buildds (amd64, i386, lpia) arch-agnostic. This would involve a bit of magic on the master side to do slightly more intelligent scoring and decide which jobs to dispatch first (so, for instance, we don't clog up the entire x86 pool with amd64 builds and stall i386 and lpia), and also logic in the master to pass architecture to the slave in extra_args.

On my side, the slave will need to deal with the arch being passed in extr_args and convert itself to the appropriate architecture for each build, which I shouldn't have too many problems doing, but there looks to be a fair number of server-side snafus to worry about here before we can test it in any meaningful way.

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Changed in soyuz:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: buildfarm
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → High
summary: - builddmaster needs to be able to deal with "random arch" buildds
+ builddmaster needs to be able to deal with buildds that can host builds
+ for more than one arch
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → William Grant (wgrant)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
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Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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