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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting



Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

> Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 12:38 +0100, schreef David Schmitt:
>> On Monday 14 March 2005 11:28, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> > In this case, it was a bug that required human intervention, a package
>> > upload that accidentally would hose a chroot, which required the
>> > chroot to be repaired for each affected buildd.
>> 
>> Even that can be mitigated by debootstrapping the chroot once a day 
>> automatically.
>
> Not really. You are severely underestimating the time it takes to do
> that on the slower architectures.

Make it every 50 builds or on error. Slower archs will do it less
often (time wise).

Also for archs that can keep up with etch with max 2 buildds that
should hardly be a problem. For those running debootstrap or unpacking
a chroot.tar.gz is a matter a minute.

MfG
        Goswin



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