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Re: open issues with the hppa port



* dann frazier (dannf@debian.org) [090911 22:35]:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:01:24PM -0600, LaMont Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazier<dannf@dannf.org> wrote:
> > > What happened to sarti? Loosing a box like that would certainly add
> > > load to the others.
> > 
> > Sarti failed to power on one day.
> > 
> > > >> >> Are you allowed to boot a kernel/initrd that I send you?
> > > >> > I don't see why not, assuming these changes don't add a risk of
> > > >> > producing bad binaries.
> > > >> To be safe, I think we should be throwing away the packages built when
> > > >> running the instrumented kernel. Is there a way we can do that? Can
> > > >> you find that out for me?
> > > > That would probably need to be answered by LaMont - he's the buildd
> > > > admin for these boxes.
> > > OK, I'll wait for LaMont to comment.
> > 
> > Simplest way is to change ~buildd/.forward-porters (or whatever it is)
> > to not send the logs to me.  second best would be to tell me what not to
> > upload. :-(
> 
> That would prevent it from getting uploaded, but won't that package
> get marked as built, preventing other buildds from trying?

It won't prevent the package from being moved from Needs-Build to some
other state with that effect.

Easiest to avoid that is to just push a bunch of packages into
buildd/REDO, and disable access to wanna-build (that will also
definitly prevent that packages are being uploaded).


Cheers,
Andi


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