Am Mittwoch, 24. November 2010, 14:00:40 schrieb Christian Boltz:
Hello,
Am Dienstag, 23. November 2010 schrieb Adrian Schröter:
You may have noticed that we have higher and higher build load on build.o.o.
Well, at least on the x86_64 build hosts. The ppc64 hosts are bored ;-)
Which brings me to a question and suggestion:
How to handle noarch packages?
As a rough number, on my 11.3 laptop I have 1940 x86_64 and 318 noarch packages - that's about 15% noarch packages. (I'll take this number instead of checking all packages in the distribution in the rest of this mail.)
1) build targets
The noarch packges I checked in Factory are build for i586 _and_ x86_64, and later only one of them is really used. The other one just wastes build service power.
Wouldn't it be enough to build for one target, say i586?
yes ... but if you need it for building x86_64 packages you need to maintain export filters manually. And you can build dependency loops via cross architecture, which are harder to detect and would increase the build time a lot. So far we always believed it is too much trouble. But you can try it of course. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org