Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> The answer to that is to setup a dist-cc cluster for these archs,
> where only the master node is in the slow arch, and everything else
> is a fast arch.  i.e. far stricter buildd requirements would fix it.
> Even mirror space problems can be fixed without dropping an arch.

Stricter buildd requirements might do it.  Perhaps an upper limit on
the number of days allowed to pass from a package is upload until the
autobuilder did its first build, and an upper limit on the number of
days allowed to pass with a broken toolchain before the arch is
removed would work.

But at the moment, there are very few problems with the autobuilders,
it seem.  The packages with missing builds on some archs are listedon
<URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff-all.html.gz>,
and it is not bad compared to earlier.

  Missing archiectures blocking packages: arm(86) mips(84) ia64(74)
    alpha(65) mipsel(64) m68k(61) sparc(60) powerpc(59) s390(51) hppa(46)
    i386(5)

Of course, the relative order and package count in this list varies a
lot over time.