RFC: Page size on PPC/PPC64 builders

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 20:23:52 UTC 2008


David Woodhouse (dwmw2 at infradead.org) said: 
> > OK, then. Why would we explicitly make people build under a combination that isn't
> > in Fedora (that they can't reproduce in Fedora) that can cause their build to fail
> > (for whatever reason)? Do we appreciate being cruel?
> 
> Because it finds real bugs, and because it's useful for RHEL and EPEL that way too.

So does setting a different base address on the builders, or running
a different umask, or subjecting each build to fuzz, or setting MALLOC_PERTURB_.
Or any other variety of things which we don't do.

Bill




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