Re: Future of the amd64 gcc-3.4/gcc4 archive - New archive location

[Kyuu Eturautti <vekotin@b2.st>]

Andreas Jochens wrote:

> It has been announced that the debian-amd64 project will move from the 
> current alioth machine to a new host soon. 
>
> The amd64 gcc-3.4/gcc-4.0 archive will not move to that new host. 
>
> Instead, it will be rebuilt from scratch with the newly released gcc-4.0 
> and reuploaded to a different project on alioth. This process 
> will take a few days. During this period, the gcc-3.4/gcc-4.0 archive 
> will not be available. I apologize for the inconvenience, but alioth
> is low on disk space and consequently the old archive has to be deleted
> before the new files can be safely uploaded.
>
> The rebuilt gcc4 archive will be accessible in a few days at the 
> following new location:
>
> deb http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4 unstable main contrib non-free
>  
Could you clarify - will/should things work with a currently installed 
gcc-3.4 unstable installation, by just changing this to be the new 
source. Are any apt settings, dist-upgrades, epic rituals or complete 
reinstallations required?

Also, will downgrading from gcc4 sid to gcc4 sarge work in a similar way 
as a switchover from pure64 sid to pure64 sarge?

Thanks for the hard work with the gcc-3.4/gcc4 archive. I've found it to 
be a very interesting test environment for compiling. The compile time 
differences compared to a standard pure64 setup are interesting, to say 
the least. I hope to continue having 1-2 test servers for this in the 
future as well.


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