On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:31:19AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > David Schmitt wrote: > >1) people realize that $arch won't be REGULAR for etch because the > >people working on a release don't want to handhold it through testing > >and autobuilding is too slow to properly keep up. > Even not considering the problem I see with the Vancouver proposal > regarding Debian identity and quality, I think *this* is one of the > greatest problems: how much is this a problem with autobuilding being > slow? Autobuilding being slow is a problem that has a number of > interesting, _techinical_ solutions as, eg, incremental building, > ccache, distcc, etc. > And I had not a good answer on why such an important item (KDE taking 12 > days to compile on m68k???) was not addressed. > A non-clean ccache, keeping .o files between successive would give a lot > of boost on this. Clearly, you have no concept of how much source passes through unstable each day, and how big a ccache would have to be to be useful on a buildd... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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