Re: postgresql?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:32:25AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > It's administration of multiple daemons for one architecture that is
> > > > the real issue.  I'm still trying to come up with a good solution for
> > > > this - it's about half written, I think...
> > >
> > > We're currently running six machines for m68k. One has the database
> > > locally, the others use ssh for wanna-build. I fail to see the problem
> > > here (other than getting enough people to process the logs, of course).
> >
> > Sorry, the paragraph I wrote above says the exact opposite.  That's not
> > what I meant at all.  PowerPC is not short CPU cycles; voltaire's daily
> > build rarely takes more than a few hours.  It's log processing, and my
> > little brain, that are bottlenecks.
> 
> Well, that aspect of administration wasn't what I thought you were talking
> about, obviously. I didn't forget you said that before, and I wasn't
> suggesting something along 'just set up a bunch of buildds, Dan is going
> to take care of the rest'.

Right, I didn't think you did.  Sorry if it came out that way.

> I'm well aware of the bottleneck. The PowerPC port is quite active so it
> should be not hard to find a volunteer developer for each buildd machine
> to handle the logs. Michel Daenzer offered to help, and so did I. We need
> some way to access the wanna-build database (write access, or course) for
> that to work. We can use either special buildd2, buildd3 ... accounts for
> that, or regular user accounts. Your choice.

For non-US, this is definitely a good idea.  For main I'd rather have
all logs go to one address, and us find a way to have multiple people
process them, so that no package gets stalled by one missing
maintainer.

> > > would be a creative interpretation of export regulations :-). I don't
> > > think the fact that the database resides on a US machine conflicts with US
> > > law, right?
> >
> > I'm not sure.  I suppose you're right.
> 
> I sure hope so. What sense would it make to move the database to
> ftp-master, then?

I'm trying to get voltaire's reverse DNS fixed so that it can talk to
auric again.  Other than that I need to apply some buildd patches and
talk to Ryan Murray.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software                              Debian Security Team