Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

[Ingo Juergensmann <ij@2005.bluespice.org>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:44:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> > Bastian Blank worked on a database that handles all these build-deps on the
> > central wanna-build replacement. The idea is to give out just those packages
> Even that sounds too complicated. Really, each buildd can work this out
> on its own. Given the current packages files, determine whether you can
> meet all the dependencies.

"Can" and "should" are different stories. 
When there's a missing build-dep on one arch, it might make sense to stop
that package from being distributed for other archs, so they don't waste
their time on that. 
You can't do that on a per buildd basis. 
Same for supplying additional build-deps that have already been solved on
faster archs. 

Have you ever watched several buildds doing their work to give qualified
comments on that issues? If so, join the group at #multibuild... 

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