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Author: KatolaZ
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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] why is the build so complex ?
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:58:39PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-12-15 at 10:35 +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> > Hi Nico,
> >
> > Devuan could do with one or 2 more well provisioned amd64 buildhost - ie
> > 8GB ram, decent number of vcpu's and ~ 80GB fast (pref ssd) storage.
> >
> > It would be pretty much idle 99.9% of the time but when it runs it would
> > push signficant cpu load.
> >
> > A local Devuan/Debian mirror would be useful as well to speed up builds
> > significantly (the slowest part for most packages is installing all the
> > build dependencies.
>
> Hi, you seem to have forgotten build005 for builds. I haven't started that image
> recently due to too little memory for all images, and no requests to start it
> again :) But maybe you are asking for package hosts?
>



I think we are talking about building hosts here, and indeed having a
couple more of them would be good. A build-host is useful only if it
is online when we need it (that is, when we are building a
package). Having to ask the owner to put it online when it's needed is
far from ideal, IMHO.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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