Openmoko build infrastructure questions

[Holger Freyther]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 19:16:58 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:25:39PM +0200, Holger Freyther wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 April 2008 17:01:18 Andy Green wrote:
> > > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > > | 	- IIRC debian disabled buildd's due issues with qemu (more than the
> > > | philosophy)
> > >
> > > I googled around about these, I didn't see about it on the Wikipedia
> > > entry or another link about ARM-specific QEMU from there.
> >
> > I mostly watched this on planet.debian.org back then. I think this blog
> > http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=33 kicked it of. And even there he is talking
> > about strange failures. Uploads by his buildd were disabled shortly
> > afterwards. :)
>
> That's not actually what was going on there - no official Debian buildd
> has ever been emulated.
>
> The "strange failures" mentioned in Aurelien's blog post were on a real
> ARM box then used as a buildd (a rather old one that had been working
> much harder than it might ever have expected to).  He then decided to
> start uploading packages built by himself on an emulated ARM system,
> unfortunately not coordinating with the ARM buildd maintainers, which
> resulted in ARM uploads by anyone not an ARM buildd maintainer being
> disabled.  The considerations driving that decision did include concerns
> about possible problems from emulation but weren't restricted to that at
> all.

Ah, sorry I got it wrong then. The critique on using emulation remains 
though. :)