RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Bill Davidsen]

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> said:
>> I think this would be a valuable improvement, though, if you could feed 
>> changes through some mechanism and then do the image build on the mirror 
>> server, you would save everyone a ton of effort and bandwidth, and the CPU 
>> time is minimal to do the image build.
> 
> Building an image isn't free in terms of CPU, RAM, or I/O.  Also, IIRC
> you can only build an image on the same arch as the target (e.g. my i686
> server can only build ix86 targets, not x86_64 or PPC).
> 
I'll take your word for that, although I have no idea why assembling parts into 
a whole would take any architecture dependent code. I make ISOs for PPC & Mac 
using x86 tools (mkisofs), so clearly it's a limitation rather than a 
requirement to build ISOs.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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