On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:36 PM, <wbon...@theitmakers.com> wrote: > Hi Hiroyuki, > > Thanks for your answer (and for all answers that followed). These are very > good news for me. > >> So, I'm planning that almost all ppc64 binary packages will be rebuilt >> as binNMU. >> I have already given binNMU command for only ppc64 port to wanna-build >> DB at the last Friday, >> but there are many many source packages, that command takes long long >> time. >> Wait a moment. > > > We are currently rebuilding, on our side, the packages needed for the > project (very short term). We also have setup a build farm that will be used > to rebuild the full Debian archive (next coming weeks).
Neat \o/ > Our farm is based upon standard Debian tools (wannabuild, buildd, sbuild). > We are willing to share our effort. So maybe we can help. I would be happy > to contribute some build or whatever you need, and even join this team. What > would be the criteria to submit binNmu please ? > > The current target is e5500, which means i rebuild packages with the > following additionnal flags : -mcpu=e5500 -mno-altivec -mtune=e5500 > > Is there some more generic flags i could use ? > >> I want to construct a ppc64 porterbox chroot on partch.debian.org (a >> POWER7 machine), >> if recommendation from DD and recognitions are obtained. > > > If you need access to some hardware which do not implement vmx nor some > opcodes (like fsqrt), maybe i can put a e5500 box in "public" access for > Debian team and even provide a porterbox and/or a buildd. I am not yet 100% > sure, and i would like to know what are your needs. If you need need access > to this kind of ressources (or other) please let me know, I will do my best > to make it available. That's actually a good question. I am guessing you could contact the DSA team directly: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html#server-machines You still have the option to maintain this machine by yourself (non-DSA machines are just fine: https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi) -M
