linux.conf.au/debiancon: January 2003
Debian Development List: debian-devel

Subject: Re: ccache for the autobuilders?
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Paul Russell <prussell@alderaan.franken.de>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:16:04 -0500
 
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:50:19PM +0200, Paul Russell wrote:
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> Hi all,
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>       Just packaged Andrew Tridgell's ccache (like compiler cache only
> written in C and much quicker).  You might want to consider using it for the
> autobuilders (although the disk requirements might be overwhelming).

That's pointless; the autobuilders almost never build the same file
twice.  By the time a package comes up for rebuild at least a day has
passed (more generally weeks).

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer