On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:47:23 +0200 Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Now that the x86_64 port is official we want to make it as good as ArchLinux (i686). You may have noticed that I'm doing most time a one-man-job. And that's now too much work for one person to keep all packages up to date in an acceptable time.
Great news: i686 devs and also TUs want to help us. They offer their time to build the packages they maintain for a second time.
What we need: a build farm running several machines Arch64.
We will use pacbuild. The great distributed package building tool from Xentac. Read here more about it:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacbuild and http://xentac.net/~jchu/blog/static/pacbuild
i686 package maintainers and TrustedUsers will get accounts to sent pkgbuilds to the farm. The main server will send it further to a pc running the local build daemon. The more pcs we have running Arch64 with pacbuild daemon the lower the load will be.
Who can offer his pc for running the pacbuild daemon? What you need: just a clean(!) Arch64 installation for correct linking. So there should be only official packages from current/extra and later community on it. A separate system would be nice but is not a must.
Actually, a clean system is barely needed. Because the build daemon actually creates its own build chroot. Jason