On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 13:38, Emanuele Aina wrote:
> Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> confermò:
>
> > It would be useful for far more than just the embedded crowd. It
> > would be a huge benefit to the arches where the buildds currently
> > run on terribly slow older boxen. Those could instead have their
> > packages automagically built from _any_ working buildd...
>
> I completely agree. It might speed up the release process for some
> big packages (think how much time need glibc to be compiled on m68k).
Well, equally, those big packages tend to have testsuites that need to
be run. Obviously it would be possible to do the build on one machine
and run the tests on another, but that seems like it would be rather
complicated to automate.
p.
Received on Sun Mar 03 15:57:36 2002
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