Re: Conceptual talk about distributed pbulk on exotic port

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 07/04, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2018-07-04 at 07:32 BST, Julien Savard wrote:
> 
> >    3. Still run on sparc hardware but with the help of emulated sparc
> >    systems (via qemu-system-sparc) and with one or 2 amd64 vm/host for the
> >    scan phase ( build_clients and scan_clients in pbulk.conf). All will mount
> >    some NFS filesystem for pkgsrc.Complicated setup but it might works.
> 
> I would choose this option, but just use qemu for everything.  Spin up
> as many processes as your hosts will take.  Our pbulk modifications:
> 
>   https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commits/joyent/feature/pbulk/trunk
> 
> include patches such as:
> 
>   https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commit/b3306098b1f5a4214ffcb13ba077273408d3d034

Hi, Jonathan!

Any chance of getting patches like this into upstream?

Thanks!

Lewis