On Wed, 3 May 2006, Manuel Dejonghe wrote:
Doing full/light packages will help the users who download packages, not
build servers that create them.
Could the central build server not repackage submissions from such
slow-connected-servers ?
It would somewhat defeat the purpose of the distributed builds to bring back
significant work to the main server. The files that would be missing in a
"light build" would still be target-specific so they would not just be an
identical set of files to append to all packages unconditionally.
I can easily imagine us continually increasing the amount of builds and we
need the distributed "effect".
Or let the central server do the packaging only.
The packaging needs lots of files that are created during the build so thus
only a machine that builds for a target can package for that target.
There's also this angle: the current script works like this and it seems like
a lot more work to add work-arounds for build servers with severly capped
upload rates than to just say that we prefer servers without such limitations.
I would expect that many people out there have more than 200Kbit/s upload
capabilities on their servers...
And yes, I'm old and grumpy! ;-)
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