Excerpts from Gaudenz Steinlin's message of Don Jan 06 23:50:50 +0100 2011: > Excerpts from Christian PERRIER's message of Don Jan 06 07:01:07 +0100 2011: > > Quoting Daily build aggregator (debian-boot@lists.debian.org): > > > Debian installer build overview > > > ------------------------------- > > > > > > Failed or old builds: > > > > > > * OLD BUILD: mipsel Dec 09 00:12 buildd@rem build_cobalt_netboot-2.6_serial > > > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/mipsel/daily/build_cobalt_netboot-2.6_serial.log > > > > > * OLD BUILD: s390 Dec 19 00:03 buildd@zandonai build_generic > > > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/s390/daily/build_generic.log > > > > > > > > * OLD BUILD: sparc Jul 12 11:08 stappers@dd build_netboot > > > http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/build_netboot.log > > > > > > So, we still have these three arches where builds are broken for quite > > some time. > > > > Apparently s390 failures are fairly recent but were probably unnoticed > > because the recurrent sparc failures made everybody ignore the daily > > failure mails. > > I was aware of them but wanted to wait a bit more to see if they are > transient or not before pinging the buildd maintainers. And then > christmas and new year vacations interfered with this plan. I'll ping > them in the next days. s390 seems to be fixed now. > > > > > > > mipsel failures happen since Dec09. Gaudenz pinged the mipsel porters > > list but got no answer (at least none that I can see): > > > > =========================================== > > Hi mipsel buildd maintainers > > > > Since 12/09 the debian-installer daily images for mipsel are no longer > > autobuilt (at least there are no new builds pushed to d-i.debian.org). > > The builds used to be built on rem. > > > > See http://lists.debian.org/20100331165134.GA19557@mails.so.argh.org > > for more information on how the d-i daily images building on the > > autobuilders works. > > > > It would be nice if you could investigate this and report back if > > there is a problem that needs our (debian-boot) help to fix. > > =========================================== > > I got an answer that rem is currently moved to a new hosting location > and added a not to the stats webpage. Probybly these notes should also > be included in the mails. I changed the script now to include the notes and to not include any details about old builds if there is a note for this architecture. > > > > > > > And sparc failures are a longstanding issue as they are apparently > > built in a broken environment by Geert: > > > > =========================================== > > Ping! > > > > Two more weeks and no answer from either Geert or the SPARC buildd > > maintainers. I'm CCing this to debian-sparc in the hope to at least > > get some status update. > > > > IMHO the best solution would be to adopt the same setup as on most > > other architectures: To build the d-i daily images on a buildd. See > > below for more information on the setup. > > > > If I don't get an answer by the end of the year I'll add a note to the > > daily images overview[1] and possibly similar pages that currently no > > sparc images can be provided until some steps in to do the necessary > > work. > > =========================================== > > > > I got one reply that the first mails had been overlooked and the > person said to be on semi-VAC currently. After that the conversation > died off. I don't think Geert is interested anymore and this build > should be moved to a sparc buildd. As there is apparently also not > enough interest by sparc buildd maintainers I'm inclined to just turn > off these builds until there is more interest. > > I would be willing to setup a build on a buildd myself, but earlier > conversation about giving the d-i team more access to these buildds > gave me the impression that this is not possible (or at least very > hard). I now added a note and sent a last ping to the sparc porter and buildd admin lists. I won't bother about sparc anymore until either someone shows interest in setting up a build or someone provides me with the necessary access. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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