On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Getting Debian/68k to run on ColdFire _will_ solve many problems. It > will not magically fix the toolchain, that much is clear; however, it > will get us hardware that is much beefier than what we have now, and > this is much needed: > > * We had a buildd park of 12 machines, last I checked; if more than a > few of those go down, we start lagging behind again. Due to the age of > much of our machines, this happens more often than is the case for, > say, amd64. Getting newer and more powerful hardware will mean that we > will not have broken hardware as often, and that we may have more > surplus capacity than we do now. While we can just add new buildd > machines now, too, this isn't the most ideal solution, since adding a > new buildd host increases the load on buildd maintainers fairly > importantly; the cost/benefit ratio is much better on ColdFire. > * If major updates are in order for large sets of packages, wanna-build > will queue them in semi-random order, which isn't the most efficient. > Since the core libraries take some time to build, the mess remains for > a while. It takes quite a bit of work to fix such a mess; if those > core libraries are built faster, then the mess is smaller and the > number of failed packages and packages in dep-wait will be much, > _much_ smaller. What's the status of etch on aranym? -f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
