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* Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> schrieb: |
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> > Well, if there're header bugs, shouldn't they get fixed before these |
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> > libs are stabelized ? ;-O |
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> And there we have the thin line between actual bug and fuzzy |
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> specification. Sometimes things fail just because two people assumed |
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> something and thus the code disagrees in a really funny way. |
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> Or just the GNUisms that tend to leak in through glibc+gcc ... *shudder* |
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hmm, do you have some concrete examples ? |
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> > Okay, adds *10 to the test matrix. Still not yet an too complex |
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> > problem (still linear complexity). |
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> So just to keep up with the current package update speed in gentoo you'd |
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> be saturating about a dozen quadcore machines. For amd64 only. |
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Well, I'll have to investigate further. |
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Maybe it's time for a distributed build project: a generic container |
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image, which gets distributed to dozens of machines and runs build |
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tests coordinated by some server ... a bit like seti@home ;-) |
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Enough CPU is available all around the world, just heavily distributed. |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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