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

Subject: Re: ccache for the autobuilders?
From: Paul Russell <prussell@alderaan.franken.de>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 05:17:35 +0200

Message was signed by Paul Russell <prussell@debian.org>
On Sunday 31 March 2002 18:16, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >     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).

Hi Daniel!

        Autobuilders constantly build the same file twice, but as you point
out, it is rarely done close together.  For the slower architectures, throwing
a 20GB drive at the problem might be worth considering.
--
Thanks for your mail,
Paul.

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