Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:45:21AM +0200, Helmut H. Franke wrote:
> Dennis Clarke schrieb am Wednesday, 09. May 2007 um 20:46:04 -0400:
> |On 5/9/07, grave@ipno.in2p3.fr <grave@ipno.in2p3.fr> wrote:
> |>> voltaire.debian.org, our venerable but still reliable build daemon,
> |>> has been living in my apartment for a number of years. I'm moving
> |>> house shortly, though, and won't be able to host it in my new home.
> |>> So it needs a new guardian.
> |
> |I have been running the Solaris project Blastwave.org for five years
> |and it would be trivial to add in one more machine.
> |
> |I'm in Canada however.
> |
> |Dennis
>
> May be you debian people want to have a look at
> http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/ and contact the
> people there. I am not quite sure though, but I
> think and maybe they already run a buildd at one
> of their ppc 64 servers at the computing centre at
> Augsburg University. And of course thay run more
> than enough 32 bit machines, too.
Especially, as the quad power5 machines hosted there are officially
debian donations from IBM. And a powerpc64 buildd would be important if
we want to go multi-arch/bi-arch now that etch is out.
But the DSA team have refused to even consider those augsbourg machines,
probably because they where overloaded, and unwilling to share the work,
a bit like it is happening with the arm or sparc ports, where new
hardware was proposed, but ignored or rejected.
I myself have a dual G5 XServe machine online at a datacenter a
kilometer from my home, which could be used as a buildd, but i have been
suspended, and seen as the devil incarnate by those in power, so ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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