[Piuparts-devel] Call for help: archive rebuilds

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 09/05/13 at 13:52 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
> 
> On 2013-05-09 11:32, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > I'm unlikely to be able to do much archive rebuild work in the coming year, so 
> > I would welcome help on that front.
> 
> I'm not volunteering for the job :-)
> 
> But your mail rises two questions:
> 
> * do we have a recent wheezy rebuild - ideally post-release and error-free?

I did one, but can't find the results now...
I was happy with the results (all failures being known and filed as bugs).

> * AWS (I never looked into this) might be a possibility to run
> piuparts-slaves, especially for doing quick re-checks. The last full
> recheck I did locally was a distupgrade squeeze2wheezy [i386] without
> installing recommends, took about 4-5 days on a quad-core i7 with 16 GB
> RAM running 8 slaves and doing the tests on tmpfs.

Yes, sure. Just contact me when you want to use AWS to do that again.
Should be easy.

Lucas