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Re: Resurrect discussion: Mixing 32 and 64 bit distro


On Feb 14 04:54, Yaakov wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:02:47 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> Indeed.  Building packages on behalf of a maintainer only having a 32
> > bit system should not be much of a problem.  Also, the build farm for 64
> > bit is a good idea, and our dept at Red Hat is inclined to provide it.
> > 
> > But instead of a farm, it might be even sufficient to provide a simple
> > mechanism for maintainers to build their package on a 64 bit machine via
> > mail:
> > 
> > Send your cygport file to cygwin-64-build-package AT redhat DOT com, and
> > a dedicated 64 bit Cygwin machine will try to build your package.
> > Results of the cygport output via mail reply. On success, packages will
> > be uploaded to sourceware automatically.
> 
> Email?  Three words: "git update hook" :-)

You're talking to a git idi^Williterate.  I was looking for an easily
manageable solution which works if you don't have direct access to the
build machine.  If you can do that with git, fine.

> > > Regardless, a helpful step would be to have per-package git repos on
> > > sourceware, like I have currently on cygwin-ports.git.sf.net.  This
> > > would open up the package maintenance process and hopefully make it
> > > easier for others to help with, or adopt, existing packages.
> > 
> > Isn't adopting packages already easy enough by just fetching the
> > existing source package from sourceware?
> 
> I'm thinking more along the lines of collaborative development, history
> preservation, redundant backups, all the things that (D)VCS are good
> for.

Yeah, rub it in :)


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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