+++ Thorsten Glaser [2014-10-13 12:05 +0200]: > Hi all, > > > sbuild/buildd runs apt-get update, but not apt-get *upgrade, > before each build. But I assume this should not be changed > either…
I _think_ we don't do this because the upgrading uses a lot of time on buildds, especially slow ones. I did do this (build in snapshot, upgrade for every build) for the whole arm64 debian-ports bootstrap and it worked fine, but the buildd did spend a lot of time upgrading the same packages over and over until the snapshot was updated (which was manual and done approx weekly). This particularly adds overhead to small, quick builds. I think existing policy on official buildds is to manually upgrade chroots approx weekly or on request? I would favour a daily snapshot/chroot upgrade (as opposed to doing it on every build) as a compromise between 'every build' and 'weeklyish'. Is there a good reason for not doing that? There is always a small risk of breakage on upgrades. Keeping the spevious snapshot as a fallback would be one easy way of that not usually causing any real problems for admins. > So we need either a technical, or a policy-ical, or a human, > solution to this problem, right? The situation could clearly be improved. (I have an interest in built-usuing currency for cross-toolchain builds). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141013101719.gg19...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
