Thanks for your input. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gard...@canonical.com> wrote: > 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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