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 possible on

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 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 load on DSA.

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 to

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 this access

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). Also

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 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, and was

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,

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,

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 address

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 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 in this