Hi, 2011/8/15 Eduard Bloch <e...@gmx.de>: > #include <hallo.h> > * Roger Leigh [Sun, Aug 14 2011, 11:01:11PM]: >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote: > >> > Wouldn't it be better to get more buildds for those archs, then? >> > That would be a totally appropriate use of Debian money... >> >> Possibly a stupid question here but: Given that we are now autosigning >> builds, why can't the slower arches use gzip, and then after upload >> they could be recompressed with xz (and resigned) on a faster arch? >> This would allow xz compression on all arches, but not require slow >> arches to actually do the xz compression themselves. > > Yeah, but if we got that far then we could easily create a remote > compressing service for such systems. Can be easily achieved by > configuring xz as service in inetd.conf and hacking dpkg-dev to run > something like "socket -q localRocketFastSystem" instead of xz on the > build machine. Maybe we don't have to hack dpkg-dev. Maybe could replace xz with netcat on slow build machines.
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