Bug#759303: GNU/kFreeBSD sprint, fast porterbox access

[Steven Chamberlain]

Hi,

I'm going to privately rent a VM from BigV.io for approximately one week
to do some Debian GNU/kFreeBSD work:
  * to test jessie d-i, particularly partman-zfs
  * clang-3.4, #759303: Does not have multiarch include paths on !linux
  * kfreebsd 10.1, #760114: transition: kfreebsd-kernel-headers
  * gcc-4.9, #761277: gdc uninstallable on kfreebsd because of missing
dep. libphobos-4.9-dev

If anyone would find it useful, please send me your SSH public key (via
GPG-signed email, please) and you can have access.  But remember the
machine will be gone in 7 to 10 days from now.

If this all goes to plan, there'll be two sid chroots (jails, actually)
both accessible via ssh:  kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, but the host
kernel will be kfreebsd-amd64 10.1 (from experimental).

I'll be tuning it to get the fastest possible disk I/O (using ZFS).
Initially it will have only 2 cores + 4GiB memory, increasing later if
needed to 3 cores + 8GiB memory or more.  The (compressed) filesystem
will have 50GB space increasing later if needed.  And about 8GiB swap.

BigV.io is a public cloud product of Bytemark, a Debian sponsor.  They
have a full Debian mirror in the same datacentre (York, UK).  I wanted
to test anyway that GNU/kFreeBSD installs and runs nicely on it (based
on KVM, using virtio).

I need to do some test rebuilds for #760114 involving big packages with
slow testsuites like glibc, gcc-4.9;  I'll probably SIGSTOP these while
any interactive users are logged in to keep things fast for any porting
work.  screen and tmux will be available.

I'll perform at least two builds of packages maintained by
debian-bsd at lists.debian.org, for the
http://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds effort.

With whatever time is left I'll try to rebuild (only once) all of
build-essential and perhaps other things.

Have fun!
Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org

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