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Re: How should stalin be handled on slower architectures?



* Ingo Juergensmann:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:42:36PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> We need cross-compilation for other reasons as well: currently, there
>> is too little redundancy among the trusted buildds for security
>> updates.  One failed buildd delays security updates for the whole
>> distribution.
>
> I wouldn't say that this result in needs for crosscompilers, but in
> increasing the number of machines available for such kind of builds.

The activity on these buildds is covered by the vendor-sec pseudo-NDA,
so they have to be restricted (maybe to a point that you build only
security updates on them).  I consider this as a waste of resources.



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