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 medium packages most > > updates would still be released in sync, since we're not available to > > release updates 24/7. > > Yeah, that's what I was suggesting.
Ok, if that's an agreeable consensus to arm porters, we should add it to the Lenny release notes. > > > I'm also unsure based on Moritz's mail exactly what kind of speed > > > they're looking for from an arm security buildd. He mentioned something > > > on the order of 14 hours to build xulrunner -- would an arm box that > > > builds it in 9 hours[1] be a worthwhile improvement, or will that still > > > leave the security team waiting until the next day for arm to catch up? > > > > 9 instead of 14 would still help. I also think a second security buildd > > would help: It wouldn't address the spikes of giga packages like xulrunner, > > but it would help for cases, where several updates are building in > > parallel. > > The benefits I see from such a speedup are that it would let the arm > advisory arrive 5 hours faster (but still 7 hours after everything > else), and that it would increase the number of packages that wouldn't > need a delayed advisory for arm. Accurate? Yes, that's correct. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]