Bug#104798: Build failure on hppa (at least)

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 09:57:39AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >Can we stop boot-floppies from being picked up by autobuilders somehow? 
> >PLEASE?
> 
> I don't think there's anything that debian-boot can do to stop autobuilders 
> from having a go.  The people who run the build daemons need to add 
> boot-floppies to @no_auto_build in buildd.conf.
> 
> Or of course we could fix boot-floppies to make it autobuildable.  I don't 
> think this would be all that hard, but it probably isn't worth the effort.

I don't think we could.  It has some rather specialized build
dependencies, and last I checked still needed real root to create
images.  The build daemons mostly use fakeroot now.

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