On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:12:30 +0100, Julian Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
We could make change COPY archives to allow copying a specific list of packages fairly easily couldn't we? (COPY archives use the source archive as an additional source at build time?) Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
