On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:03 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hi gurus, > > I'm looking to buy or build an install host -- one machine dedicated to > building and serving a local repository for the purposes of > installing/upgrading/maintaining other Debian hosts throughout our > organization. The problem is, I'm a little clueless when it comes to > hardware, and I want to make sure that I'm not about to shoot myself in > the foot. Some of the packages in my local repository require > compiling. Do I need to worry about AMD vs. Intel and/or 32-bit vs. > 64-bit when building my install host? (A machine that generates *.deb > files that are only good on *that* one machine is useless to me.) > > How do you guys deal with this in your organizations? > > Thanks for your input,
I am not a DD, but my approach would be to buy 64bit AMD or Intel hardware (amd64_x86(sic?) covers both architectures). I would then make a 64-bit build environment in a chroot, then a 32-bit build environment in a chroot. After that it is a SMOP (not not really but, I digress) to get the buildd in each environment to do its job. Of course, you could also setup XEN or Vserver environments. And for clarity, IA32 cover 32-bit Intel and works for AMD 32-bit processors. IA64 is the Itanium series of processors, amd64 cover the AMD K8/Opteron processors AND the Intel emt64* Intel processors. Intel lost out on that nomenclature. I am sure others will either correct me or elaborate or both. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
