On nie 8. czerwca 2003 14:59, Michael Scherer wrote: > > However with more machines to rebuild packages (and with centralised > > and automated extranet) we may be able to make it for the next > > release. > > what about using a cross compiler ? If done properly, people just have > to install a rpm on a i586 box, and compile for alpha or mips or what > they want.
I'm not a software developer, but I'm not sure if using cross compiler would always work. Feel free to correct me :) > and, when you say a extranet, do you mean some kind of vpn, with access > for the community ? if so, then using a crosscompiler and , maybe > distcc will allow to have more ressources avaliaible, but i don't know > if this is possible. Yes, by extranet, I meant VPN. And as you can see, we already have distcc working on the sparcs. (Thanks Per Oyvind! :) BTW, What are our options for building the VPN? IP-IP, IP-GRE (easy to configure, but unencrypted) and IPSec (freeswan), thou I have no idea about the latter ;) Regards, -- Jaroslaw Zachwieja Centre for Scientific Computing University of Warwick
