Using Koji for building Extras

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 21:50 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> Just a couple of quick questions:
> 
> > While we don't feel comfortable with the build resources to move Core over
> > to koji, we obviously have enough resources to build Extras.
> 
> Hm, in terms of package numbers inside one arch, Extras devel is over twice 
> the size of Core devel.  Just curious what makes Core's build resource 
> demands obviously higher than Extras'?  More archs, more big packages to 
> build?

Things like gcc, glibc, kernel, and OO.o are huge resource users.  I
think OO.o can take 24 hours or more to build, which ties up a single
builder all day.

josh