Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (218 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag 08 Dezember 2009 schrieb Marcus Meissner:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:36:13AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I see that you are submitting many requests to let openSUSE packages
> > build in parallel. I am a little surprised that it is needed, I
> > thought the build service was powered by icecream which was magically
> > dispatching build jobs as needed. Or am I far off track?
>
> I dont think the buildservice uses icecream. Please correct me though.
It does not, but let's assume it does: icecream can only really help if the
package builds with parallel jobs, so it needs to be enabled in the package.

> > Now, if parallel build should indeed be added, I would have expected
> > it to be handled globally rather than on a per-package basis.
> >
> > Can you please clarify? What problem are you trying to solve, where
> > do we come from and where do we expect to go?
>
> Well, you need to tell the .spec files that "make -jsomething" is possible
> instead of just "make".
>
> You cannot just replace make blindly by a automatic parallel version.
Actually the fact that we build for a long time without %jobs > 1 led to many
packagers adding %jobs and having no good way to test this: and now many
packages fail because their build systems are just not up to parallel make ;(

> (Of course the question is really if it is necessary for all packages.)
I wonder too. Many of the packages patched compile for very short time and
spend their time in doing installs and test suits.

Greetings, Stephan
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