Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:42:25AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: >> > >> >> If we do go to source-only uploads, could this problem be avoided by >> >> having arm and other slow arches wait until at least one other arch >> >> successfully builds the package? >> > >> > I think that would be a good idea anyway, even if we do not go to >> > source-only uploads. There is no point in wasting expensive CPU cycles >> > to build a package if it FTBFS on every architecture. >> >> I would rather do the opposite. Stop building a package when it fails >> on other archs. Thing about the (unlikely) situation that arm is >> idle. Nothing to build. Now someone uploads foobar. Should we wait or >> just try? If it works we saved time. If it fails only idleing is lost. > > Or how about having the package rejected before being queued if it is > not buildable on a (p|cow)builder installed on a fast machine, for > instance?
You could make the i386 buildds special (or whichever arch is the most complete) and have it build a newly uploaded package first. Only if that succeeds throw the package at the other arches. This would need overrides for packages that don't exist on i386. Matthias
