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Re: Checking buildd logs



On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 05:17:57PM -0800, Rick Younie wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:55:36PM -0800, Rick Younie wrote:
> > > Several developer machines run buildds if you want to check things
> > > out.  gluck and voltaire for example.
> > 
> > If you look on voltaire, you'll notice that I take the lazy man's
> > approach to build daemons.  It runs in a chroot, but it is by no means
> > empty; in fact, almost every time I find a missing build dependency, I
> > just toss the package in.
> 
> It doesn't really matter because you don't file bugs :-)
> 
> ...not a dig.  There are several of us handling the m68k logs but
> it can still eat up a fair chunk of my computer time sometimes.
> I have no idea how one guy can do all the logs for an arch (or
> several arches) and still have a life.

Exactly.  I don't file bugs, because in my experience enough bugs do
get filed, and I'm more interested in propogating the distribution
without losing my soul to it.  I do a very cursory job - I describe
fails rather than investigating them, usually, and hope that someone
else will fix them.  Usually, someone does :)

> Now that all the logs are centrally located at buildd.d.o has any
> thought been given to having volunteers file build failure bugs
> I'm wondering?  Some problems are arch-specific but many aren't.
> Maybe Cc some repository when someone takes responsibility for a
> bug?  Or would this be more hassle than it's worth?

Well, volunteers out on debian-powerpc have been doing this lately, and
it seems to work out well.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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