Always use some specific servers to build a package
Andreas Barth
aba at not.so.argh.org
Sat Jun 12 18:30:41 UTC 2010
* Kurt Roeckx (kurt at roeckx.be) [100612 17:08]:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:25:15AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Sylvestre Ledru, le Sat 12 Jun 2010 00:01:25 +0200, a écrit :
> > > Does anyone see a better way of handling this specific problem ?
> >
> > Can't atlas just build the binaries and not try to run then?
>
> Or atleast only run those that are supported by the buildd.
>
> I can imangine that at some point you'll add support for
> instruction sets that none of our buildds currently support,
> and I assume you want to get them build anyway.
>
> It might also be important for people who want to NMU, do security
> updates, whatever, to be able to build it with whatever cpu they
> have.
>
> But I can understand that you would like to run as much as
> possible regression tests.
It would be possible to scan the cpus for the supported instructions,
and skip the regressiontests (with a warning) that can't be run.
Andi
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