Subject: Re: Package build box
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/05/2000 22:24:37
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> > Does anyone have a package build box? With that I mean a machine
> > that just sits and compiles packages all around the clock and takes
> > notice of the status.
>
> I have such a machine, sort of. It's also partly my pkg-development
> machine, unfortunately. I'm still hoping to get a machine for bulk builds
> _only_.
I would really like to see a couple of _fast_ bulk machines. One i386 and
at least one non-i386. Perhaps macppc would be a good choice. I've
noted a number of places where pkgs are not quite ready for non-i386.
I've also had to fix a few where 'uname -m' != 'uname -p'
-dan