Archive rebuild proposal for Lucid

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:05:32 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum 
<lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
>On 28/10/09 at 01:31 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> We did a rebuild test that started September 9th and took a few weeks to 
run:
>
>Hi,
>
>If that's helpful, I could do some rebuild during the Lucid cycle using
>a grid infrastructure I have access to (I do some for Debian on a
>regular basis). I can do them for i386 and amd64, and it only takes ~8
>hours to rebuild all the packages on both arches.
>
>However, it's unlikely that I will have time to process the results, so
>I would only provide a list of packages that FTBFS, and access to the
>logs. Someone else would have to do the analysis.
>

That would be very helpful.  One of the problems with the Launchpad rebuild 
system is how long it takes and the archive skew that happens in the mean 
time.

Scott K