On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:45:34PM +0200, J�r�me Warnier wrote: > Le ven 08/08/2003 � 12:15, Sven Luther a �crit : > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:32:42AM +0200, J�r�me Warnier wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > > In truth, we would need a group of smaller experimental repositories, > > > > with autobuilders attached too. > > > Could there be one for backports to Woody as someone proponed a few days > > > ago? > > > > What you need official woody backports, and that is something i think > > would be good to have, but i am not the one to decide about that, and i > > am not sure our current infrastructure can handle it. It is ready for > > it, but if you consider the considerable amount of network space and > > bandwith > > as well as the load on the autobuilders, i am not sure it would be > > realsitically doable. > Well, I was not thinking really about an official buildd, but a machine > where to compile automatically for a small team to work on it together. > I'm not, in any way, willing to delay or slow down the Sarge release. > The opposite, in fact, if I can do anything to get the patches or > solutions I found to backport to Woody available to Sarge, I would be > really glad. > > Maybe some buildd guru could help me setup such a system? I have already > a machine that could be used to this (with plenty of disk space and > horsepower), but I have to be carefull because it's already a production > machine. I would like at least to talk to someone knowledgeable in this > respect before doing it actually. > > > Also, such a project would be better discussed in a post sarge release > > timeframe, in order not to delay the sarge release further than is > > necessary. > Then I would have to do it for Sarge, not Woody. But who knows when > Sarge will be out? I need a cool desktop right now, not somewhere end of > this year (or is it next year ;-)).
For a desktop, just run the sid packages, no problem there. I suppose anything really security conscious or stability critical will mostly be a server and not run any desktop stuff anyway. Friendly, Sven Luther
