Re: SPARC daily d-i builds

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Due to the lack of porter and buildd admin interest there are currently no daily
> builds for the SPARC architecture. These builds will be reenable as soon as
> someone finds the time to do the necessary buildd setup.

I just ran into this yesterday when debbugging grub on Sparc:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609733

> I would also be willing to do the neccessary setup myself if someone
> provides me with the necessary access to a sparc buildd.

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > I would also be willing to do the neccessary setup myself if someone
> > provides me with the necessary access to a sparc buildd.
> 
> So, again, it's not about lack of interest, it's about lack of time.

... and the lack of enough disk space on a Sparc buildd:

Philipp Kern wrote:
> 15:27 < trave11er> ok, we didn't get any reply from stappers, so sparc dailies still have the old kernels, afaict

Does http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609733 suffice
as bug report?

> 15:33 < phil> otavio: "were going to" is quite untrue.  There still isn't a bug
> report, and I did report the result of my investigation, i.e. there's no space
> on the only LVMed sparc buildd we have.
> 15:37 < otavio> phil: I didn't recall about the space issue
> 15:37 < otavio> phil: indeed
> 
> So meh, whatever.  To my knowledge that's still true.  We currently don't have
> the capacities and we admitted that.  Furthermore not asking -wb-team might
> not give you answers, indeed.  Sorry if I missed something along the way.

So how much disk space is needed for building the daily images, why
does it have to be on a buildd (i.e. does it suffice to throw hardware
at it) and how new/fast does the sparc to be?

I do have a bunch of Sparcs at home which are not in use yet, but most
of them are Ultra 5 and 10 which should be around 15 years old or
older. I also have one dual processor sparc built by Tritec which I
haven't setup yet, so I don't know the details about processor speed
-- but I got it for free and it has/had Woody installed according to
the previous owner, so it can't be very new. (I also have some more
32-bit Sparcs, but I know that _they_ won't help. ;-)

If any of them could help I'll see what I can do (which is also mostly
a function of time.)-:

		Regards, Axel
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