Re: restricted sourceless ARM uploads

[Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>]

Wookey wrote:

> On 2006-12-20 17:39 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > For those who don't know, I have setup 8 emulated ARM build daemons and
> > started to upload packages. To know why and for more information, see
> > [1].
> >    
>
> Very impressive piece of work aurelien! We ought to discuss if there
> is any significant reason not to use qemu 'machines' instead of actual
> hardware for slower arches.
>  

As long as there's the occasional test on actual hardware, I don't have 
a problem with it.

For the faster arches, i.e. the ARM9 machines and above, I'm thinking 
that we should stick with real hardware so there's no question that the 
binaries will run properly.

> How fast is each of your build machines in comparison to existing
> buildds?
>
> The offered Hedges machine is more than twice as fast as existing
> buildds and really ought to be brought into the network - it has been
> offered for about 2 months now. I will mail DSA again to see if anyone
> will tell what needs to be done next, by whom, and when. It is very
> rude to people making such offers to give no response at all for such
> a long time. Fortunately bill seems very tolerant of Debian's foibles,
>  

What choice do I have? I'm not a DD, so it isn't like I have any 
authority to do otherwise. :)


> and we can at least use it as a private developer-access machine in
> the meantime.
>  

Indeed.



b.g.

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