On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:38:51AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > That's a fair question. I think that voltaire's been down at least twice > > > since I started paying attention to buildd stuff. I'm just offering some > > > redundancy. I also wasn't using the box much anyway, so I thought I'd > > > offer it. If it's simply never going to be needed, then I'll > > > find something else for it to do. > > > > I think it isn't needed; Voltaire's been done a few times, yes, and I > > can't [EMAIL PROTECTED] figure out why, but those are only when I am on > > vacation. > > Adding more machines gains us pretty little. > > Other than some other machine kicking in automagically without anyone > having to find a spare disk and set up a current chroot and buildd on the > quick. > > Setting a secondary machine up with a long idle timeout and low number of > packages to take would get us over your vacation times with the least > amount of hassle :-)
That's not a bad idea, I suppose. I'm not volunteering to maintain it, though :P -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
