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Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!



On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:03:55PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Unfortunately, the queue ordering policy is unclear.  I was guessing
> that the priority of the upload would have something to do with
> queueing policy.
> 
> Since the all but one of the other arch buildd's have empty
> needs-build queues, it is harmless to force them to execute a
> recompile and costs no scarce resources.  I did check this before
> uploading. 

Did you also check how much network traffic would be wasted by rolling
out the unnecessary package to all mirrors?

Greetings
Marc

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