Hi everyone, After trying to build my own autobuilder machine at home [1] I've found that there's not that much documentation on how the buildd network works, and it's quite spread out (in different locations, including mailing lists and people.debian.org directories) I'm considering uploading the attached content to the webwml sources (i.e. the Debian website) at w.d.o/debian/buildd/. This information tries to complement the information available elsewhere (i.e. buildd.debian.org, the Developer's Reference) and aggregate some of the information produced by developers (people.debian.org stuff). That's why some of you are in the mail so you can review and approve the reuse of your content. I would appreciate some comments on the content attached (html pages provided for convenience, local hyperlinks will not work due to how the website builds for content negotiation). If no one objects I will upload this to the website shortly. The only reason I'm doing this is because I think there's not enough developer-oriented information on how buildd works (both the software and the network) and I would rather have this in a single place than spread out in multiple locations. Also, it would be nice to write some additional information on both where to obtain the software (buildd was previously available at db.debian.org, but it seems to not be there any longer) and how to setup an autobuilder system from scratch. That information could reside here or, maybe, in the Developer's Reference. Thanks for your help Javier [1] To try and recompile all the Debian packages both to: - recompile it with the Gcc+SSP patch and see if we can integrate whatever Adamantix has done back into Debian through a new 'architecture' - automatically audit the source code of built packages (source code audit of unbuilt packages breaks in some cases because of extensive usage of dpatch)
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