Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Luk Claes <l...@debian.org> writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Adeodato Simó <d...@net.com.org.es> writes: >>> >>>> * Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: >>>> Mark Hymers has talked about providing a mechanism to ensure source >>>> packages stay on the pool when other stuff has been built from them (eg. >>>> kernel module packages). With this, ia32-libs could become a small >>>> source package containing scripts that would download the necessary >>>> binary packages at build time, and would encode in a header the employed >>>> versions; then, source for those versions would not be removed from the >>>> pool. >>> Buildds don't have internet access in their build >>> environment. ia32-libs may not download anything at build time. Plus >>> rebuilding would give widely unreproducible results. >> AFAIK you're talking about 2 architectures, so building them in another >> way than on the buildds should not be hard. >> >> I guess you mean unpredictable instead of unreproducible as building >> with the same versions as mentioned in the build log should be >> reproducible or ia32-libs better just gets removed from the archive >> altogether... Why would it be unpredictable, what issues do you see? > > unpredictable yes. The problem is that downloading packagescan fail > for any number of reasons and gets different versions between > builds. Verry unpredictable. > > And until there is a way for a deb to force DAK to keep other source > packages available ia32-libs would quickly violate the GPL (binary > without source). I don't see that magic feature comming anytime soon > given how slow DAK changes. Till it does the above is just not an option.
Your answering to a post where an ftp-master proposal is mentioned to change dak to make it possible... as otherwise it will just be removed from the archive AFAICS... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
