Build system - why kill other arch builds?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:01:45 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 14:31 -0600, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> > 
> >>or if it's an arch-neutral problem.  Maybe this could be made
> >>configurable?
> > 
> > 
> > Think of the alternative: You want to wait for 8 hours while open office
> > on i386 builds even though we know the build failed in the prep-stage
> > for ppc?
> > 
> 
> Agreed.  But it would be nice to be able to override.  Especially with 
> new packages it is nice to know where is builds and where it doesn't, 
> esp. with developers who may not have access to other platforms. 

ExcludeArch or ExclusiveArch tags can achieve that. But be aware that
successfully built packages would enter needsign queue and would be
published.