[Piuparts-devel] pull: feature/multislaves

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> for 4 slaves, they should be started in screen windows 1..4 labeled
> slave1, ..., slave4 with screen window 0 being a plain shell

yeah, I found out already :) But, slave_join could really use a manpage. And 
there should be a way to start slaves manually still.
 
> > also, right now two slaves are testing testing2sid, which also should not
> > happen.
> yes, that should happen :-)

yeah, by now I noticed :)

> > you can run multiple slaves in two ways:
> 
> * in separate directories (so they can process the same section)
> * in the same directory (they can't process the same section)
> 
> and of course, you also mix this :-)

ouch. (Fine that its possible, but _I_ prefer not to do this myself.)

> I implemented the first variant in slave_run, as that is probably more
> useful is there is only one section that needs to be processed.
> 
> the second variant is supported in the slave by using lockfiles, just in
> case you manually start a second slave in the wrong directory

nice. (is this documented somewhere? It should.)


cheers,
	Holger
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