Re: Donating a Machine
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:34:31PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.
What about dbuild ? is it still around or is it no more uptodate ? It worked
nicely some time back.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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