On 09/02/2010 09:45 PM, John Rigby wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Building the three flavours of the linux-linaro kernel package
> currently takes over eleven hours.  To improve that situation in the
> long term there are ideas about cross compiling in the build farm but
> that is still in the future.  In the short term we would like to have
> multiple source packages.  I have a script (attached) that tweaks the
> tree per flavour and runs debuild -S to produce one source package per
> flavour.
>
> I can include the script under debian/linaro/scripts for producing per
> platform sources or as an alternative I can have per flavour branches
> of the linux-linaro tree, probably produced by a similar script, that
> you could pull from and do the normal source generation per branch.
>
> Which of these do you prefer or do you have a third better idea?
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> John

I'm not wild about this, though technically it looks like it would work. 
But, now we're generating the sources that go into a package, rather 
then just packaging the sources. I don't think our archive admins will 
be too happy about this either, not to mention the extra administrative 
overhead. You're also past feature freeze so you'll need a MIR for each 
package.

Besides, whats 11 hours? Get faster hardware. I'm not convinced that 
this departure from the normal way of doing things is worth the time. 
You'll often wait for an archive admin to NEW the binaries after each 
ABI bump anyways.

rtg

P.S. I'm out until Tuesday
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gard...@canonical.com

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