Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (261 mails)

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@xxxxxxx>]

Michal Marek wrote:
> Adrian Schröter wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 June 2008 16:24:35 Michal Marek wrote:
> > ..
> > > Problem #2 (practical): To implement good heuristics, the wizard at
> > > least needs to look into the source tarball (if not run some
> > > commands...). Here comes the problem: 'tar tf foo-1.1.tar.bz2' can take
> > > a *lot* of cpu time, so where to perform such expensive actions?
> ...
> > What is with having an own service for this but handle it via the API ? 
> > We could run this service inside of a chroot or maybe even on a remote 
> > system, 
> > but not necessary on the backend server. This service would work on the 
> > scanning jobs sequential to avoid the DoS. You would need to implement some 
> > kind of waiting procedure in the frontend for this to give the user 
> > feedback 
>
> Sounds like a good idea - implement the wizard in the API, but have a
> separate service (behind the API) to extract tarballs etc. What do the
> others think? From an administrative POV - is it possible to get a
> (virtual) machine for this? (I know you guys are currently busy with the
> storage problems...)

You could consult your implementation with Andrei Oprisan. He is working
on an more intelligent wizard on his Google SoC project:
http://www.apkg.org/

He would be happy, if the service API would be compatible with his
future APKG frontend API.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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