Re: idea for project machines

2006-04-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > 1. space issues can be mitigated if the host is running etch because > the vhashify vserver ability to "unify" guests to save disk space by > performing link inversion immutability operations. The libbeecrypt6 > problems were not fixed before sarge released, so this is currently > not possib

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-31 Thread Micah Anderson
On 2006-03-30, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:28:42PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: >> How about providing this access only in a Xen guest? > > We have vserver enabled kernels for some arches in the archive. In fact all arches that we support (except for

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:28:42PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > How about providing this access only in a Xen guest? We have vserver enabled kernels for some arches in the archive. Bastian -- I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-29 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS: What do you want to port today? Oops. Got the hint :-). Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal (rganesan at debian.org) | GPG Key: 1024D/5D8C12EA Web: http://employees.org/~rganesan| http://rganesan.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > > Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was ranting about that on irc before, and was told that this is 1) > > considered to be a security risk and 2) not worth the effort. The > > additional concern I had was that an automatic solution would put less >

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-28 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was ranting about that on irc before, and was told that this is 1) > considered to be a security risk and 2) not worth the effort. The > additional concern I had was that an automatic solution would put less > load on DSA. How about providing t

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Steve M. Robbins 2006-03-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wouldn't it be nice if you could simply "sudo apt-get install " > yourself? Is it feasible to have at least some of the sid chroots > allow this? Alternatively, how about "sudo pbuilder login ..."? I was ranting about that on irc before,

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-26 Thread Reinhard Tartler
>> Create a new custom chroot with the packages preinstalled on demand. > Sounds like a use-case for combining pbuilder and cowdancer (or lvm > snapshots). No time-consuming tarball extraction, disk usage is reduced > and the original chroot is untouched. Or just plain schroot on lvm snapshots. It

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-26 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 00:48 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Laszlo said: > > I was in this situation some time already. But it isn't a solution to > > get sudo apt-get install rights. Someone who may have a build-conflict > > with your build-depends won't be happy if you install that package(s).

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Laszlo said: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:01 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Wouldn't it be nice if you could simply "sudo apt-get install " > > yourself? Is it feasible to have at least some of the sid chroots > > allow this? Alternatively, how about "sudo pbuilder login ..."? > > I was

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 00:22 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Create a new custom chroot with the packages preinstalled on demand. Sounds like a use-case for combining pbuilder and cowdancer (or lvm snapshots). No time-consuming tarball extraction, disk usage is reduced and the original chroot

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Laszlo Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:01 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> [...] apt-get your sources, chroot into sid, and discover that >> one of the build-dependencies is missing. There's no way to debug the >> build problem: by the time you find the right a

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:01 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > [...] apt-get your sources, chroot into sid, and discover that > one of the build-dependencies is missing. There's no way to debug the > build problem: by the time you find the right address to email about > adding the build-dependency,

idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Howdy, Suppose you're a debian developer with limited time each week for Debian. You get a bug report because your package fails to build on architecture X. When you have your 2 hour window to sit down and fix things, you log in to one of the project machines of the appropriate architecture, apt