On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:22:33AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:52:29 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The only real showstopper for some of the slower arches is that they > > >take too long to compile some of the bigger packages, and that slows > > >down getting security upgrades out the door. I was under the > > >impression that things like distcc and the like were intended to > > >address exactly these issues. If people are motivated to keep their > > >pet arch in the mainline distribution, I think doing the work to set > > >up a distributed build farm that won't slow down the security > > >releases is both doable and likely to be good enough to meet the > > >standards outlined. > > > > If you are able to get the new buildd recognized by the empowered > > ones. Which has proven to be hard or impossible. > > amd64 seems to have done quite well for themselves actually. They have > actually done exactly what this proposal has asked for - they have done > the heavy lifting themselves, and shown that they have an infrastructure > that won't unnecessarily bog down the works.
So you mean that all the tier-2 arches should go and take over alioth as distribution media ? You read the answer of wiggy about this almost bringing alioth to his knees ? > You seem top have an axe to grind here with somebody, friend, so why not > just name names and be done with it? Sniping from the back row never > helps anything. Go look at the mailing list archives, there where enough threads about this in the past few years. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
