[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Fri Oct 12 08:40:13 UTC 2012


On 10/11/2012 08:03 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> On 10/11/2012 03:10 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Just out of interest, which packages are you referring to? I am assuming
>> it is LibreOffice + a small subset of whatever is in Fedora that isn't
>> in EL; mainly because I had no RAM/swap/CPU issues building any the 2000
>> or so packages that overlap. Takes about 3-4 weeks on a _single_
>> SheevaPlug.
>
> You're building 2000 packages, we're building 12000. Libreoffice is
> definitely one one of the problem packages where an armv7hl builder is
> called for.

I readily admit that the build time of a week is excessive.

> The koji server has a special 'heavybuilder' group which
> handles such packages. Are you using USB storage on your sheevaplug? It
> surprises me that you can get through even 2000 in 3 weeks unless half
> of them are noarch ;-)

I use iSCSI (ext4 build area on one of the hosts for the packages that 
fail self-tests on NFS) and NFS (for everything else) backed by a 
reasonably beefy storage box.

Gordan


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