> > That's a fair question. I think that voltaire's been down at least twice > > since I started paying attention to buildd stuff. I'm just offering some > > redundancy. I also wasn't using the box much anyway, so I thought I'd > > offer it. If it's simply never going to be needed, then I'll > > find something else for it to do. > > I think it isn't needed; Voltaire's been done a few times, yes, and I > can't [EMAIL PROTECTED] figure out why, but those are only when I am on > vacation. > Adding more machines gains us pretty little.
Other than some other machine kicking in automagically without anyone having to find a spare disk and set up a current chroot and buildd on the quick. Setting a secondary machine up with a long idle timeout and low number of packages to take would get us over your vacation times with the least amount of hassle :-) Michael