Re: Another powerpc Buildd?
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 03:12:20PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 03:20:07PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:44, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > > I would like to offer my G3 enhanced Mac 7500 as a permanent buildd for
> > > powerpc.
> >
> > Do we really need one? I was under the impression that the only trouble
> > we had with our autobuilder was processing failed builds and such (which
> > you seem to have helped with, Stephen; thanks).
>
> 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.
>
> > Incidentally, we currently have the highest percentage of built packages
> > (besides i386) that I've ever seen of any non-i386 arch. Good job,
> > everyone!
>
> Yeah!
And my deepest thanks to the folks who pulled that off :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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