Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (312 mails)

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Hello 
Thanks Dominique, is there any possibility of utilizing the idle hosts to
help out even though it is a different platform e.g ppc64 [37 out of 197] 
https://build.opensuse.org/monitor
Cheers Glenn
 
> Dominique wrote
>
> The only way to reduce the waiting time is throwing more build power at
> it.
>
> If you have 200 packages, each taking 30 minutes to compile, it's going
to
> take 100 hours, no matter in what order you build them.
> Except in the rare case that all packages are waiting for a single build
> (example gcc). But then, this also won't change, as it would block
> everything else, anyhow it's 'the only' possibility to start with, as
> everything is blocked.
>
> So in short: I guess to get shorter cycles, just more build hosts need to
> be connected. (which of course summarizes down to somebody needing to
throw
> money in).
>
> A 'distributed' approach might be interesting, but I understand that the
> question of trusting RPMs built in such a way would be very very high up
on
> the list (no guarantee a remote worker is not tampering the created
RPMs).
> Dominique

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