On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >> Hypothetical daily KDE builds would also insanely increase the amount of > >> network traffic being used by the mirror pulse and people upgrading > >> their home boxes, so it isn't just a buildd problem. > > > > Perhaps it helps, if the buildds for slow systems introduce some delay > > before startng the build, and not building if another architecture failed at > > all. That way if a package is often uploaded or hase obvious errors, the > > build for that is skipped. > > What would help save many hours on slow systems is having a script > automatically set "Dep-Wait: libbfoo (>> 1.2-3)" for all new sources > according to Build-Depends to prevent useless buildd attempts and > failures and manual work to retry them. > > An attempt to build something big can take 3-4 hours to install > Build-Depends, see they aren't sufficient and to purge them again.
s/something big/something with lots of build-dependencies/ There are small KDE applications that require most of the KDE dependency chain to be installed, while on the other hand XFree86's build dependency list is (relatively) small. -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]