Go Stew, Give me till May-June, at that time I will hopefully be in a position to help with the builds (PPC cluster time).
till then, good luck and keep it up Ray On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:35, Stew Benedict wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Gaétan QUENTIN wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't know what your problem is, but i was wondering, about ppc cooker: > > i have installed mandrake 9.1 on my imac and pc. Then i have updated them, > > from 9.1 to cooker. > > > > Since that day, i update my systems (pc and ppc) daily and i can say that if > > the i586 cooker version is moving fast (there is a lot of new packages > > daily), the ppc version is far behind. For an example: impossible to update > > kde, since there is no new kde binary packages for a very long time... > > > > > > So my question is: is ppc cooker abandonned and how many cookers are working > > on it? > > > > Cooker-ppc is a community/volunteer effort. Currently there is one > person, I believe, building the packages, and the lag behind x86 is > partically just physics. x86 packages are built on a multi-machine > cluster in Paris, which builds many times faster than the single machines > that I was using when I was doing the official builds. > > Complicating this is when there are rapid-fire releases of large packages, > say kde* in one day. You might be in the middle of one build and another > comes out before you even finish it. There have been occasions where I've > had to kill these builds 3 or 4 times and blown a whole day of machine > time with no packages built. > > So, no, it's not abandoned, but it doesn't have the same level of > resources committed to it as the official platforms.
