On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:23:08AM +0200, Thibaut VARÈNE wrote: > Le 6 août 2010 à 03:46, dann frazier a écrit : > > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:30:41AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > >> Dear HPPA porters, dear HPPA port users, > >> > >> the Release Team is currently wondering if it makes sense to release with > >> HPPA as a regular stable architecture with squeeze. It might be that > >> it is not up to the standards of a regular Debian release. We seem to > >> chase random segmentation faults, causing multiple give-backs to eventually > >> yield a built package. > > > > I realize this doesn't address the larger concerns you mention, but.. > > > > I've found that a workstation I recently acquired (a c3700) seems > > to reliably build packages that reliably fail on our existing > > buildds (subversion, for one). I assume CPU architecture differences > > allow this box to be immune to the issues causing these builds to > > fail. > > Out of curiosity, are you running a 32 or 64bit kernel? It seems > weird to me though that C3700 would work and not J6700, since ISTR > their respective hardware don't differ that much...
Sorry for the delay - wasn't near the machine to check. It is 32-bit. I'll try a 32-bit kernel on peri to see if that changes anything. > > > Due to the formfactor, I don't think HP would be able to host it and > > my upstream bandwidth at home is too limited. If the project wanted to > > make this machine a buildd and find hosting for it, I'd be willing to > > maintain the buildd. > > IIRC C3700 is B2000-style box. It can be racked sideways with L-shapped > support rails. > My previous hosting offer still stands, although I believe it might not be > the easiest/closest one for you ;-) > > HTH > -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hppa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100813014508.gb10...@lackof.org