On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:22:47PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:08:59PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:47:36PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > I am trying to build a package on vaughan, but am not getting very far. Any > > > ideas? > > fakeroot is known to not work on mips or mipsel. The autobuilders use > > sudo instead of fakeroot as the root command during package builds. > > For testing purposes on these architectures (since you don't have root > > privileges on vaughan), you'll need to drop the dh_testroot command from > > your debian/rules. > Actually, I need to build the whole package as the lack of it is holding up > quantlib (and related packages) for testing. Sorry, official package builds for mips/mipsel require real root access for the above reason. > It has been timing out on mipsel; the autobuilder supposedly has too short a > fuse. Quantlib does some fancy c++ and that takes some time. It used to > build reliably, but the last few releases failed on mipsel. And only on > mipsel. Please email mipsel@buildd.debian.org an ask for the timeout to be raised. You could ask someone with a mipsel machine to do a manual build, but this would not help us if we needed to do security updates for the package in sarge. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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