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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?
From: Manuel Dejonghe <manuel_at_dejonghe.de>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 10:32:21 +0200 On 5/3/06, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_rockbox.org> wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Manuel Dejonghe wrote: > > >> Doing full/light packages will help the users who download packages, not > >> build servers that create them. > > > > Could the central build server not repackage submissions from such > > slow-connected-servers ? > > It would somewhat defeat the purpose of the distributed builds to bring back > significant work to the main server. The files that would be missing in a > "light build" would still be target-specific so they would not just be an > identical set of files to append to all packages unconditionally. > > > Or let the central server do the packaging only. > > The packaging needs lots of files that are created during the build so thus > only a machine that builds for a target can package for that target. Okay, I thought the biggest part would be the identical fonts, wps and such. Langs, Rocks are indeed target-dependant. > There's also this angle: the current script works like this and it seems like > a lot more work to add work-arounds for build servers with severly capped > upload rates than to just say that we prefer servers without such limitations. > I would expect that many people out there have more than 200Kbit/s upload > capabilities on their servers... > > And yes, I'm old and grumpy! ;-) given :-) ~lImbus Received on 2006-05-03 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |