Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-29 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:54:41PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Another proposed solution would be the use of lvm snapshots to build the > > packages in. Just lvremoving the snapshot would give you a clean chroot > > again. > Could be worth a try - no idea how much overhead lvm incurs and whe

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, > > That really needs to be considered carefully, seeing as that keeping a > > chroot as clean as possible has gone a long way to prevent install > > dependency trouble in the past.. > > Another proposed solution would be the use of lvm snapshots to build the > packages in. Just lvremoving the

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:36:07AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Having a smarter buildd queue is a long term goal and something that I > > wouldn't burden on the shoulders of the m68k porters. I already made some > > proposals to enhance the build process long ago. For example to not remove >

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, > Having a smarter buildd queue is a long term goal and something that I > wouldn't burden on the shoulders of the m68k porters. I already made some > proposals to enhance the build process long ago. For example to not remove > all installed packages, just to install most of them right again,

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, > > First off - is there any web site where I can get the status overview we > > used to have on crest? May be time to revive crest's hourly package status > > cronjob, if we can find it... > > Uhm, how about http://unstable.buildd.net/index-m68k.html then? ;) Thanks, I knew I must have been

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-28 Thread Luk Claes
Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:27:07AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: >> >>> Meanwhile, maybe we need to think about what a debian-m68k distribution >>> should really have in it. We could probably release

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:55:02AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > I think we can take care for about 4000 source packages, but ~7000 packages > > is was too much, especially when some of the porters are always trying to > > bring coldfire support in... > Actually, we generally stay caught up

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:27:07AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > Meanwhile, maybe we need to think about what a debian-m68k distribution > > should really have in it. We could probably release a lenny-m68k without > > kde

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:27:07AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > Meanwhile, maybe we need to think about what a debian-m68k distribution > should really have in it. We could probably release a lenny-m68k without > kde, gnome, mathematical packages, and some of the other large packages > that

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:24:24PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Regarding the backlok - I had hoped to take down hobbes for a few days for > kernel hacking, but that seems out of the question now? We haven't been less than 800 needs-build for a month and we're not likely to be without a fair a

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-27 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:24:24PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > First off - is there any web site where I can get the status overview we > used to have on crest? May be time to revive crest's hourly package status > cronjob, if we can find it... Uhm, how about http://unstable.buildd.net/index-

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-27 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:51:01AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:25:14AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > > Regarding the backlok - I had hoped to take down hobbes for a few days for > > > kernel hacking, but that seems out of the question now? > > > > The Needs-Build

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:25:14AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > Regarding the backlok - I had hoped to take down hobbes for a few days for > > kernel hacking, but that seems out of the question now? > > The Needs-Build queue indeed looks scaringly large... Sorry, all my machines are off. The kerne

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-27 Thread Luk Claes
Michael Schmitz wrote: > Another question: I have persisting trouble on hobbes each time a > documentation build attempts to pull XML schemas off the net. Has any of > you found a solution for that? Packages shouldn't require net access during their build process, filing an RC bug might help? :-)

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
Sorry to be late to the party but I've been swamped with stuff at work. Some answers, and some questions of my own: First off - is there any web site where I can get the status overview we used to have on crest? May be time to revive crest's hourly package status cronjob, if we can find it... >

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-22 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 05:46:00PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:03:07AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > I fired up tanda again, but it has this problem: > > > > > > gcc-4.2: Depen

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:03:07AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > I fired up tanda again, but it has this problem: > > > > gcc-4.2: Depends: gcc-4.2-base (= 4.2.2-3) but 4.2.2-4 is to be installed > >Depend

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-22 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:07:37AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:38:05AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:39:58AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > > We seem

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:07:37AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:38:05AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:39:58AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > We seem to be losing ground on the needs-build. This would be a > > > good time to get

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-22 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:38:05AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:39:58AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > We seem to be losing ground on the needs-build. This would be a > > good time to get all your buildds fired up and running. > > If you need some debian-install

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-22 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:45:02AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Some packages are built quite regularly like bouml, which takes some days to > > build. We maybe should postpone such sort of packages in order to build > > packages that weren't built for a long time? > Does there exist some

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:39:58AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > We seem to be losing ground on the needs-build. This would be a > > good time to get all your buildds fired up and running. > > If you need some debian-installer help, please let m

Re: [buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-22 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:39:58AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > We seem to be losing ground on the needs-build. This would be a > good time to get all your buildds fired up and running. > If you need some debian-installer help, please let me know. > Even with the fpu bugs, do ya'll think arany

[buildd] needs-build @ 914

2008-01-21 Thread Stephen R Marenka
We seem to be losing ground on the needs-build. This would be a good time to get all your buildds fired up and running. If you need some debian-installer help, please let me know. Even with the fpu bugs, do ya'll think aranym is ready to be a regular buildd? In the coming months, I may be in a po