Extend the support of platforms in Soyuz

[Fale]

On domenica 22 febbraio 2009 23:52:59 Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:19:24AM EST, Fale wrote:
> > I have proposed with this ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/332958
> > ) bug to consider to support more platforms in the PPAs.
> > This was my proposal:
> > ---------
> > I think it is very important for making *ubuntu grow, support more
> > platforms in PPAs.
> > I think the main platforms that have to be supported are:
> >  * amd64 (already present)
> >  * i386 (already present)
> >  * lpia (already present)
> >  * arme
> >  * hppa
> >  * ia64
> >  * powerpc
> >  * sparc
> >  * arm
> > This would make a lot of software available for these platforms.
> > The ARM company have announced that they want to put Jaunty on their ARM
> > processors...
>
> PPA buildds are run in a virtual environment, in this case xen. The other
> architectures are not yet supported for PPAs because there is little or no
> xen support available for them. From my knowledge of these architectures, I
> think ia64 and powerpc are *probably* the closest to having xen support,
> but I think this is only with specific hardware, hardware that Canonical is
> not likely to invest in, since ia64, hppa, powerpc, and sparc are no longer
> officially supported by Canonical for Ubuntu.
>
> Luke
That true, in fact I have even proposed a "distributed" soyuz system that 
would make possible to support every platform that is used by at least 2 
users.
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