On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:19 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > 4) All supported platforms must have kernels built from the Fedora >> > kernel SRPM and enabled by default in the spec file. Each kernel must be >> > built in a timely manner for every SRPM upload. >> >> I do not like this requirement. This seems to be specifically provided >> to block the possibility to have ARM as a primary architecture if we do >> not want to support just one or two ARM platforms. I do not really see a >> problem in limiting platforms during rawhide development and branched >> development. Additional platforms could be enabled for final builds >> before the release freezes and for update builds. > > The problem with not doing a full set of builds in rawhide is that it > significantly reduces the testing - both in terms of making sure that > code still bilds, and in terms of making sure that we don't have > unexpected functional regressions. Shortly before release is a really > bad time to discover this. My impression is that the kernel team don't > want that to be a possibility. > >> Another solution might be in koji where the kernels for the additional >> platforms would be built in parallel on multiple build hosts. Of course >> that would require changes in koji. > > Yes, there's no fundamental reason that these builds need to occur in > series. If koji had support for exploding builds out to multiple > machines then things would work much better. Another alternative might > be to investigate whether distcc is practical in this environment. Matthew, can you add your initial list to the ticket as well, so we have these starting places to refer to? -J > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
