On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 08:36:44AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2022-05-26 at 14:00 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > What I was trying to say is that we would need enough riscv64 > > computing power to build all of Debian in good time... where "good > > time" is loosely defined as being able to keep up with the current > > architectures. > Here are the statistics on performance of the current architectures: > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_performance.html > So it sounds like enough RISC-V hardware to build between 2-3 thousand > packages per day on average will be needed. while this is not wrong, testing risc-v on is currently not really sensible for us as risc-v is not a Debian architecture yet. while it's certainly good to prepare for the future we as tests.r-b.o have enough to juggle right now that I don't wanna add more maintenace load and rather focus on solving identified existing problems (eg snapshot.d.o not scaling and our mirror being one arch only, etc etc pp, there are many) of which most will also affect risc-v. so it's really rather counter productive for us now to test risc-v - while it's not in debian - instead of addressing those identified issues which also will affect risc-v once it's there for real. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ There are only two kinds of nazis: stupid ones and those without an excuse. (Volker Strübing)
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