Hi Laurent, Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2012, 17:55 +0100 schrieb Laurent GUERBY: > On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 22:34 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Dear Laurent, > > > > I’m one of the Debian maintainers of the main Haskell compiler GHC. GHC > > itself has little resources to maintain GHC on exotic architectures, but > > Debian tries hard to provide a Haskell ecosystem on these. It would help > > a lot if there were GHC buildbots on these architectures, and I would > > like to volunteer to manage these, but I’m still looking for suitable > > hardware. > > > > Note that GHC is a big beast, it takes 29h and requires 4GB free disk > > space and preferably something around 6GB of RAM to build on a arm box.I > > think you need to take that into account when deciding upon this > > request. I’d already be happy if I can do a test run every week or so. > > > > GHC is BSD licensed (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/license), my > > contributions are mostly Debian package maintenance and a few minor > > patches. > > Hi Joachim, > > How do you manage to build something needing 6GB of RAM on arm machines? > > We don't have such machine in the farm :). well, the machine has 1.5GB, but it seems to have plenty of swap. I can’t really tell because I cannot login on these boxes, they just automatically build Debian packages. > Currently all of our arm machines are offline because they tend to be > not stable under load (the farm has 300 users), at least when I last > looked. I'm open to advice on how to setup arm machines to be useful for > build systems, if you have some Haskell/debian volunteers in France I > have a few arm machines around (I'm in Toulouse, and travel to Paris & > other cities from time to time). Ok, it seems someone else is about to set up an ARM buildbot, so this is covered. > For other architectures just apply for a farm account (send me your > ssh public key in attachment, and your prefered unix login). Yes, that’d be nice. Username "nomeata", SSH key attached. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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