Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Joey Hess
If we had an armel buildd that used ccache and had pre-built versions of all the security sensitive packages in its cache, updates for most packages could probably be built in a timeframe that compares with other architectures. Aside from the complexity of setting this up and desire for KISS, is

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
Joey Hess wrote: If we had an armel buildd that used ccache and had pre-built versions of all the security sensitive packages in its cache, updates for most packages could probably be built in a timeframe that compares with other architectures. Aside from the complexity of setting this up and

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:44:30PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: We could just declare arm a second-class architecture for security updates, i.e. DSAs being released once all archs are available except arm and arm updates being released once available. For small to

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Riku Voipio wrote: The security buildd is a different story. Parallell buildd's compiling several packages at time don't help[1], they want single builds completed fast, so they can release security advisories with minimal delay. For this reason, Moritz from the security team expressed being

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-20 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 06:12:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Riku Voipio wrote: The security buildd is a different story. Parallell buildd's compiling several packages at time don't help[1], they want single builds completed fast, so they can release security advisories with minimal delay.

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-20 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:44:30PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: We could just declare arm a second-class architecture for security updates, i.e. DSAs being released once all archs are available except arm and arm updates being released once available. For small to

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-19 Thread Wookey
On 2008-02-19 16:05 +, Colin Tuckley wrote: Talking to tbm on irc this afternoon, it seems there is some confusion about how many armel buildd boxes there are and how many are needed. Current situation: There are 3 buildd boxes (all of them Thecus N2100 boxes), two hosted by Riku and

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:23:34PM +, Wookey wrote: Givenwhat Riku said about buildd plans (3 more thecus, existing ones- porter machines, search for something even faster for security work), it suggests that this Kuro box is probably only useful for developing installer support? Usefull

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Wookey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-19 16:55]: Does anyone know if current installer images will work? I find some rather old (2.4 kernel) stuff here: Not yet, but I'm currently working on Orion support for d-i. If there is something I can expect to 'just work' then I'll have a Nope. --

armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-19 Thread Colin Tuckley
Talking to tbm on irc this afternoon, it seems there is some confusion about how many armel buildd boxes there are and how many are needed. Current situation: There are 3 buildd boxes (all of them Thecus N2100 boxes), two hosted by Riku and the third by me. They are almost keeping up with the

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-19 Thread Riku Voipio
Firstly, congrats for Zobel, we understand that you have more important stuff to do than read this mail now :) On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:05:17PM +, Colin Tuckley wrote: There are 3 buildd boxes (all of them Thecus N2100 boxes), two hosted by Riku and the third by me. They are almost

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-19 Thread Wookey
On 2008-02-19 16:55 +, Wookey wrote: On 2008-02-19 16:05 +, Colin Tuckley wrote: A box for use as a porter machine would help with fixing problems. I have a kurobox pro here donated by marvell for Debian use. Givenwhat Riku said about buildd plans (3 more thecus, existing ones-