On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:33:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:19:29PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:23:23PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [attribution lost] > > > > 2) Does buildd repects order of uploaded packages? > > > > > > No, not really, it is more like a lifo, i.e. the last uploaded package > > > is tried first. > > > > Packages are ordered by priority, then by section, then alphabetically. > > When a buildd's queue is empty, it grabs the next few packages off the > > top of this list. Time of upload is not considered at all. > > I used to think that was true, but when I mentioned it on IRC once James > Troup told me that that was an urban myth ... I haven't read the code > myself to check. You're being confused. My page at <http://people.debian.org/~wouter/wanna-build-states> used to say that the time of upload was considered. I was mistaken; when confronted, James told you this was wrong. Upon being told that, you mailed me asking for clarification. I checked the code, and confirmed that my previous text was indeed incorrect; so I now fixed it to say about the same thing what Daniel Kobras posted -- and yes, he's right, except that he missed out the previous compilation state. -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune
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