Re: buildd redundancy (was Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

2006-10-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 02:32:27PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > It's not reasonable to rely on one single machine like that: apart from the > mess that would happen if it went down or the person uploading its packages > took a week's vacation, As opposed to the "mess" that does happen right

buildd redundancy (was Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

2006-09-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.31.1641 +0200]: >> Please read up on the regular (every few months) discussions about >> "source-only uploads" in the list archives. (Capsule summary: yes, >> it would be easy to do, but there is no consensus that it

buildd redundancy (was Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

2006-09-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: > Accordying to James Troup, whom i asked exactly that at some past debconf, > this is because if there is some lag in the x86 buildd, then loads of user > will complain to them about non-installable packages, and the > ftp-masters/buildd administrators being volunteers and not