R James <[email protected]> writes: >> BTW, I once calculated (test plus extrapolation) how long it would take >> to rebuild every package in Mandriva on a low end 2 GHz Celeron server >> that I had available and it came to about 80 days.
With a reasonably good machine, we used to be able to rebuild most of "main" in about one day. > Perhaps I was naive in thinking that compiling the distro could be > done with distcc or even a simple queuing system that distributes > SRPMs to nodes in the community swarm. As each node returns its > completed binary package, the queuing system could send it another > SRPM to build. > > It would be cool if it could be done that way. Why pay for data > center space, hardware, electricity and big bandwidth when you could > have a community-provided "cloud" for free? :o) Because there are some authentication and integrity issues which are not simple to solve: we have to be sure that the binary packages really come from the unmodified SRPM (so that it does not contains malware). -- Olivier Blin - blino _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
