Tuesday 13 November 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote: | On Nov 12, 2007 4:51 PM, Damir Perisa <damir.perisa@solnet.ch> wrote: | > are there plans for a i686 built-machine? | | For pacbuild, absolutely. This, however, is something different. similar but different, right :) | It's possibly to setup a 32bit chroot on a 64bit machine (as 64bit | machines will run 32bit code), but it is not really possible to do | the other direction (last I checked). | | So this machine is here for people who don't have 64bit hardware, | or do but don't want to wipe their machines just yet. yea, unfortunately such a chroot needs quite some hdd space. no, actually i wanted to say first how great this is what you have made, but forgot. it is for sure a great help. i am on the road with my 64bit laptop and thats why i can usually do 64bit pkgs quite quickly but lag behind in i686 atm. | > my old machine is dying slowly but steadily and i do not yet | > have a bigger harddrive on my new one... so i'm kind of | > handicapped on i686 atm. | > | > @ all : if you find some x86_64 pkgs of mine not updated/build | > for i686, this is the reason - feel free to build them if you | > have the resources. thanx | | Well is this is a problem at this moment, I can look into this. In | fact, I might be able to setup a 32bit chroot on the same machine, | which would make everything easier. no need to make you additional work. it is nothing really urgent. and anyway we are a quite big team so its not really a problem at all. i'm actually impressed how load-share simply works. its the small things that happen in the back that make us after all (this <insert slang word here> discussions) still a great team! (and this without drinking any ethanol containing beverages) after all, i need to get a bigger harddrive anyway. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><