Re: Donating a Machine
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:46:48PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > I was interested in setting up an autobuild machine for Helix Gnome and probably
> > > other Gnome packages, and some packages unavailable to Potato users (like XF4).
> > > Is the software for the autobuild machine available somewhere ?
> >
> > That won't work very well; the autobuild is designed to be used off of
> > the main debian archive. You might be able to fudge it for Helix, but
> > it would require you setting up a local dinstall, etc. And that's
> > quite painful to do.
>
> Well, sbuild is just a perl script for all I know, and you can probably
> adjust it to some other archive structure easier than faking a real Debian
> archive.
Sbuild would be fine with this; it's buildd and wanna-build that
wouldn't. Sbuild just gets handed packages to build; buildd determines
what needs building right now, and wanna-build manages the database
from a master archive.
> I thought there was a mailing list for buildd on the Debian list server
> but apparently I'm mistaken. I'll dig around for information.
You're probably thinking debian-autobuild.
Dan
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