Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:54:18AM +0000, Philipp Kern a écrit : > >> there might not be clusters of arm yet but I saw offers for clusters of mips. > > Hi Philipp > > I also saw this cluster and got quite curious until I realised that most > programs I package are not parallelised…
A cluster is not only about parallel programs, but also about running single threaded applications in parallel... > If we mean to attract such users, I do not think that the best strategy would > necessarly be having a pre-existing MIPS support of bioinformatics, which I > think is completely beyond our reach and expertise. I think that what would > matter would be to have a healthy MIPS port on one side, and be the best > distro > for bioinformatics on mainstream platforms on the other side. This would be a > solid basis to start a collaboration to become a good bioinformatics distro on > MIPS. Just because we can build packages is not the best indicator: most of > them > have no regression tests yet, and a significant number of the build failures > I experienced on my packages happen during such tests… You apparently fail to see that building the packages on mips uncovers bugs that would otherwise be there, but take a longer time to uncover on the 'mainstream' platforms. > So in conclusion (like a broken disk), with a simple modification of > dpkg-gencontrol, we can stop building on some architectures some packages > which > bring them no added value. For new packages, that seems to be enough. For > existing packages, maintainers who want to opt-out of some architectures would > need to submit a patch against the packages-arch-specific file and sumbit a > bunch of dak commands to the release file. This could be consolidated in > batches and I can help for this, so that the work load is minimum, compared to > the gain for everybody. As IMHO there is added value in building a package on all release architectures, there is no reason to change dpkg-gencontrol at all. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
