Hi Tomas! Tomas Fasth [2005-08-23 9:31 +0200]: > >>So you suggest throwing buildd out of the window and switching to > >>pbuilder, then? > > > > > > Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use > > pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation > > around, but rebuilding the buildd chroots from scratch would help to > > eliminate many FTBFS bugs due to polluted chroots. > > I find your statement about pbuilder and efficiency interesting. > Would you care to explain what you mean? > > As a side note, I have myself thought about extending pbuilder using > unionfs and overlays to avoid the tarball extraction for each build. Indeed I referred to the overhead of tarball extraction and the like. unionfs is a great idea, do you plan to integrate this into the main pbuilder package? This would really rock. :) Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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