Re: The ABI recompile & CDs
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 07:17:07PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote:
> Can anyone give some idea when the ABI recompile is likely to happen? At
> this stage I am assuming that it will happen in the next two months, so
> little would be achieved by releasing another set of images before this.
> As there is likely to be some weeks delay between the completion of the
> recompile and the packages appearing in the official ftp archive, would it
> be helpful if I could build some images using packages from the temporary
> staging area?
At this point, there hasn't been an autobuilder running in a month or
two (Christmas I think was when Marcus did a big compile run).
There's none running now, so I don't anticipate much to release a new
CD over before the ABI shift happens.
I am also about to leave for 3 weeks to get married. Marcus told me
at the beginning of February that if we got the system bootable with
the new ABI, and I got the basic build environment setup, he had the
time to babysit the package builds. I think it's unlikely that we'll
get the system bootable and tweaked to Rolands happiness in enough
time for me to build a base system before I leave. The system passed
beyond my troubleshooting skills several weeks ago, so I haven't been
able to contribute much to this effort.
That said - I do anticipate that we will upload as quickly as the
ftpmaster says is okay. We now have somewhere between 6 and 12 Hurd
porters who have said they will give up sleep, school, work, and
significant others to babysit package builds.
--
I gotta ding ding dang a dang a long ding dong.
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