[Piuparts-devel] Bug#735909: Bug#735909: piuparts.debian.org should test i386 packages not available on amd64

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2014-01-18 15:57, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Samstag, 18. Januar 2014, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> We could start with having both sid_i386 and sid_amd64 for now. And they
>> should be tested *full*.
> 
> we really want to test testing2sid and wheezy2jessie on those archs, and 
> testing them in full will add significant load on the slave... 
> 
> Which maybe is ok, I *believe* we can get more cores and more RAM for the 
> slave...

Looking at
https://munin.debian.org/debian.org/piu-slave-bm-a.debian.org/cpu.html
https://munin.debian.org/debian.org/piu-slave-bm-a.debian.org/memory.html
there seems to be enough capacity to increase the number of sections as
well as running 1-2 additional slaves with the current equipment.

>> I've seen failures on i386 (mainly upgrade related) that were not
>> reproducible in amd64 - but for packages available in both arches.
> 
> do you have an estimate how many? 2 out of 20000 sourcepackage or rather 200?

about 5 in total, two not fixed in squeeze2wheezy/i386 (iirc python
upgrade race)


Andreas