[arch-general] How does pacbuild work?

[Allan McRae]

Dominik Schips wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to know if it is necessary for pacbuild (strawberry daemon) to be
> accessible direct by IP/DNS of the apple daemon?
>
> As I read here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacbuild_Explained I
> thing it should be direct acessible but I am not sure.
>
> "Apple is the main server. PKGBUILDs are submitted here, and apple does
> the dirty work of contacting build machines and telling them to do
> work."
>
> The problem is that the possible build machine (x86_64) I want to offer
> the project is in a DMZ which is not direct accessible. Only outgoing
> traffic is allowed.
>
> Maybe I can make it direct accessible but first I want to know
> if it is really necessary.
>   

FYI, I have not seen talk about this in a couple of years.  So I guess 
this project got disbanded.

Allan