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

Subject: Re: ccache for the autobuilders?
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Paul Russell <prussell@alderaan.franken.de>
Cc: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:17:46 -0500
 
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:48:49AM +0200, Paul Russell wrote:
> On Monday 01 April 2002 18:23, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > I'm pretty doubtful if ccache is able to cache so much
> > data. We have 5000 source packages.
> 
> Looking at my testing PPC box with grep-available, we have only about
> 8GB total Installed-Size.  So I would expect a ccache of 1GB (the default) to
> be a net gain, given that not all packages are built with the same
> regularity.  10GB should definitely do it, well within ccache's capability.

glibc packages total installed size is only a few dozen megs. However,
the source builds takes up about 600megs. XFree86, about 1.6gigs.

There's no way to sanely cache our builds.

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