#include <hallo.h> * Roger Leigh [Sun, Aug 14 2011, 11:01:11PM]: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better to get more buildds for those archs, then? > > That would be a totally appropriate use of Debian money... > > Possibly a stupid question here but: Given that we are now autosigning > builds, why can't the slower arches use gzip, and then after upload > they could be recompressed with xz (and resigned) on a faster arch? > This would allow xz compression on all arches, but not require slow > arches to actually do the xz compression themselves. Yeah, but if we got that far then we could easily create a remote compressing service for such systems. Can be easily achieved by configuring xz as service in inetd.conf and hacking dpkg-dev to run something like "socket -q localRocketFastSystem" instead of xz on the build machine. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110815000109.ga11...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de
