On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:04:08AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:22:47PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:08:59PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:47:36PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > > I am trying to build a package on vaughan, but am not getting very far. > > > > Any > > > > ideas? > > > > fakeroot is known to not work on mips or mipsel. The autobuilders use > > > sudo instead of fakeroot as the root command during package builds. > > > > For testing purposes on these architectures (since you don't have root > > > privileges on vaughan), you'll need to drop the dh_testroot command from > > > your debian/rules. > > > Actually, I need to build the whole package as the lack of it is holding up > > quantlib (and related packages) for testing. > > Sorry, official package builds for mips/mipsel require real root access for > the above reason. > > > It has been timing out on mipsel; the autobuilder supposedly has too short a > > fuse. Quantlib does some fancy c++ and that takes some time. It used to > > build reliably, but the last few releases failed on mipsel. And only on > > mipsel. > > Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] an ask for the timeout to be raised.
I did a good week to ten days ago, but nothing happened. > You could ask someone with a mipsel machine to do a manual build, but this > would not help us if we needed to do security updates for the package in > sarge. That must have been done for 0.3.7 to as the failure in the buildd log is in conflict with the fact that testing has a 0.3.7 binary. So whoever worked that magic so nicely, could you do that again, please? Thanks! Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

