Re: Another powerpc Buildd?
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:38:51AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > That's a fair question. I think that voltaire's been down at least twice
> > > since I started paying attention to buildd stuff. I'm just offering some
> > > redundancy. I also wasn't using the box much anyway, so I thought I'd
> > > offer it. If it's simply never going to be needed, then I'll
> > > find something else for it to do.
> >
> > I think it isn't needed; Voltaire's been done a few times, yes, and I
> > can't *@# figure out why, but those are only when I am on vacation.
> > Adding more machines gains us pretty little.
>
> Other than some other machine kicking in automagically without anyone
> having to find a spare disk and set up a current chroot and buildd on the
> quick.
>
> Setting a secondary machine up with a long idle timeout and low number of
> packages to take would get us over your vacation times with the least
> amount of hassle :-)
That's not a bad idea, I suppose. I'm not volunteering to maintain it,
though :P
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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