Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

> That's all fine and dandy, but for your personal pet project you don't
> need machines sponsored to the Debian project, maintained by the
> Debian project and stuff.  As you said, you own a G5 your own, so you
> can work on it.
> 
> As long as there's no perspective for powerpc64 to be included in the
> archive, there is no need for a buildd running on .debian.org hardware
> maintained by debian.org.
> 
> If it's your pet project, feel free to work on it, maintain as many
> machines as you like, talk to sponsors and bandwidth donators as you
> like.  This is not the business of the Debian project.

Note that, FYI, a ppc64 machine such as a Power5 or G5 will perfectly
fine run a 32 bits powerpc buildd, and will do it much faster than any
G4 you can find. Also, IBM Power5 machines are probably more reliably,
remotely admistrable, etc...

So it -does- make some sense to use these especially if they were
donated with the intend of those going to Debian.

Ben.