On Tuesday 03 August 2010 01:21:36 James Westby wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:00:40 -0400, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yep. I think PPAs are *usually* used to provide packages to users. In > > my case, I'm using them primarily as a kind of test build farm of a > > subset of the archive. This has other problems though (e.g. > > overwhelming the build machines) so while it's convenient, it might not > > be exactly the right (or typical) use of the resources, even though you > > and Julian keep insisting it's okay :). > > Julian was saying the other day that he doesn't think it is the correct > strategy, and that you should be using a COPY archive to do these > tests. Perhaps you should discuss it with him again and consider > switching if that would make more sense.
I spoke to doko and he said that they weren't using COPY archives because it's harder to select which packages they want to build. This isn't a problem for me provided we know _in advance_ of doing this so that we can score the PPA's builds down globally. Otherwise, the rebuild ends up DOSing the build farm. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
