[arch-ports] [x86_64] wanted: PCs for our pacbuild build farm

[Robert Howard]

Great. I'll look into the possibility of adding my machine to the farm. Now,
does pacbuild require a separate partition for the chroot or can it just
dump the necessary files into a directory?

On 7/12/06, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:56:48 +0200
> Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
>
> > Am Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:28:32 -0400 (EDT)
> > schrieb Eric Belanger <belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA>:
> >
> > > That is not true for kernel modules. If the farm contains machines
> > > running the stock vanilla and beyond kernels, then it might be
> > > possible for the build script to chose these machines to compile the
> > > packages containing modules. If that is too difficult to implement,
> > > these packages could be compiled the "old-fashion" way by a person
> > > who has a 64bit machine, i.e. not using the build farm.
> > >
> > > Snowman
> >
> > Not needed. If kernel26 or kernel26-beyond are in makedepends pacbuild
> > will install them. Anyway they should be installed. But it's not a
> > must to have them booted.
> >
> > andyrtr
>
> You don't even have to have them installed on the system.  Pacbuild
> will install them in the chroot when it needs them (because packages
> have makedepends on them).
>
> Jason
>
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