On 26/04/10 at 21:01 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> > I wonder what we (as Debian) could do about it. Would it make sense to > >> > sponsor a very fast machine that the kernel team could use to build the > >> > kernels and upload from, replacing kernel-archive.buildserver.net ? > >> The easiest fix is the official blessing by the ftp team to upload only > >> the architecture independant packages and build all architectures on the > >> buildds. > > Ftpmasters, would it be acceptable for the kernel team to upload only > > the architecture independant packages ? > > It would allow to provide debug packages on fast architectures without > > forcing the developers to upload them using their slow internet > > connections, solving #365349. > > There is a "hole" in dak that allows uploading a source that has > arch:all and arch:any with only source+all. This is not intentional, > but until now there hasn't been a real need to "fix" this. > > There are some developers already "using" this hole to upload in a > source+all way, having the rest of the packages build on buildds. > > This is not entirely the most favored thing to do, for various reasons > (including bypassing things like lintian checks and not actually showing > the stuff builds), but is very very low on our todo to fix. For the > simple reason that the packages uploaded this way simply do not appear > on any radar. Ie. they are maintained well. No (bad) lintian problem and > even more important: No build failures, the buildd do not get useless > work from them. > > Provided this will be true for the kernel packages too (ie. they are > build elsewhere first and its known to work and they don't bypass lintian > checks that would otherwise do a reject on a sourceful upload) then it > is acceptable for the kernel team to upload only the architecture > independent packages, having the rest build on the autobuilders.
Hi Debian-kernel, How do you plan to proceed? Are you planning to provide debuginfo packages before the squeeze release, or only for squeeze+1? I'd need to know to adjust my efforts on adopting systemtap. Thanks, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100504163118.ga8...@xanadu.blop.info
