RE: Advancing Debian Alpha Porting
Hi!
I have some machines and if you want to have them - feel free to write me an e-mail. Pickup in Austria...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill MacAllister [mailto:whm@stanford.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:43 PM
> To: Michael Cree; debian-alpha@lists.debian.org;
> Robert.Garron@ieeda.net; cpp@ekkaia.net; baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl;
> aloiret@debian.org
> Subject: Re: Advancing Debian Alpha Porting
>
>
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> --On Thursday, April 14, 2011 08:48:10 PM +1200 Michael Cree
> <mcree@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
> > Debian Alpha People,
> >
> > You may have noted the removal of the Alpha port from the Debian
> > autobuilder network. Packages are no longer being built for the
> > unstable distribution.
> >
> > Hopefully you have seen the promising message from Aurelien [1] that
> > it is likely that the Alpha port of Debian can be accommodated in
> > debian-ports in the next couple of weeks or so. To enable that we
> > need to start organising ourselves. As no-one else has stepped up I
> > am sending out this message but I have to admit I have limited
> > knowledge of the Debian process of porting and packaging. I suspect
> > we may be all on a step learning curve. Has anyone heard from Arthur
> > Loiret? It would be nice to get an actual Debian Developer on board.
>
> I have experience building debian packages that we use internally here at
> Stanford. I can help with basic packaging.
>
> > The debian-ports server is a wanna-build server. It maintains a
> > database of built and needs to be built packages and manages the
> > allocation of building to buildds. I believe debian-ports also hosts
> > the accessible apt package repository.
> >
> > It appears we are to provide the Alpha buildds. We need at least two
> > for redundancy but if older hardware is used then we may need three or
> > four. Craig, Witold, Robert, are you all able to offer a machine to
> > be a buildd? I don't think I can---I have an XP1000 that is my main
> > computer that I use, and two PWS600au, but they are a bit slow.
>
> I have several AlphaServer 1200s and DecServer 5000s that are idle right
> now. I can probably only bring two onto the net, but I am happy to do that.
>
> > Who is prepared to assist in the checking of built package logs,
> > uploading successful builds, and reporting build failures?
> > Hopefully we can get three or four of us so that it lightens the load
> > and enables package builds to continue when someone is unavailable. I
> > volunteer for some of this load --- but I won't be able to attend to
> > it every day. It will be more likely twice a week.
>
> I can also help with looking the the build logs.
>
> > There are some other things we have to sort out to have a fully
> > working Alpha autobuilder network but the above is a start.
>
> Thanks for your efforts and let me know what I can do to help.
>
> Bill
>
> > Cheers
> > Michael.
> >
> > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2011/04/msg00018.html
>
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> Bill MacAllister
> Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University
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