On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:38:28PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes: > > Oh, gah. Well, the main reason I went with this is because I'd still > > like people to be able to build XFree86 with older GCCs. > > Fair enough, don't worry about it then. Well, I don't actually *like* to inconvenience buildd admins... > > Can you explain a little bit more about how Build-Conflicts are > > painful for buildd admins? > > If a >> B-D isn't satisfied, sbuild will automatically try and install > the latest version. If it can't (because that version isn't available > yet, for example), it's a one/two keystroke reply for the admin to > have the package put in "Dep-Wait" state until the necessary version > becomes available. Once it does, the build will automatically be > retried. > > For a << B-C, sbuild will just fail the build if the required version > isn't installed/available yet. The admin has to [wait for the > required version to become available and then] manually update the > chroot(s) and retry the build. I see. Perhaps I am being optimistic, but maybe all the buildd chroots have been updated to the requisite version by now: branden@gluck:/home/cjwatson/ftp$ ~cjwatson/madison-lite gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.2-4 | sarge | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.2ds5-4 | sarge | source gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.2-3 | sid | hurd-i386 gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.3-0pre1 | sid | arm gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.3-0pre2 | sid | alpha, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.3ds2-0pre2 | sid | source gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.2-4 | testing | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.2ds5-4 | testing | source gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.2-3 | unstable | hurd-i386 gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.3-0pre1 | unstable | arm gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.3-0pre2 | unstable | alpha, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc gcc-3.3 | 1:3.3.3ds2-0pre2 | unstable | source GCC 3.3.3 is fairly ripe by now; is it reasonable to assume it's in use? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Yeah, that's what Jesus would do. branden@debian.org | Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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