Paper Info
Title
Rebuilding debian using distributed computing
Abstract
Doing Quality Assurance work on Debian, a Linux distribution with more than 12000 packages, requires an impressive amount of computing power, which is usually not available for its developers. In this article, we report on the development of an infrastructure to run quality-assurance tasks on Debian using the Grid'5000 experimental platform. In particular, we focus on the problem of rebuilding all packages in Debian from source. We describe the details of this task, and the infrastructure we developed, with scalability and robustness in mind. The results we obtained are then presented, and we discuss possible improvements and lessons we learnt in the process, which might be useful in the context of other large-scale experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1552315.1552318
CLADE@HPDC
Keywords
Field
DocType
experimental platform,quality assurance work,linux distribution,quality assurance,large-scale experiment,impressive amount,distributed computing,quality-assurance task,debian,possible improvement
Computer science,Real-time computing,Robustness (computer science),Operating system,Quality assurance,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
4
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucas Nussbaum114515.18