[Mageia-dev] Will this work for a build system?

Sun Sep 26 14:22:40 CEST 2010

R James <upsnag2 at gmail.com> writes:
+
+>> BTW, I once calculated (test plus extrapolation) how long it would take
+>> to rebuild every package in Mandriva on a low end 2 GHz Celeron server
+>> that I had available and it came to about 80 days.
+
+With a reasonably good machine, we used to be able to rebuild most of
+"main" in about one day.
+
+> Perhaps I was naive in thinking that compiling the distro could be
+> done with distcc or even a simple queuing system that distributes
+> SRPMs to nodes in the community swarm.  As each node returns its
+> completed binary package, the queuing system could send it another
+> SRPM to build.
+>
+> It would be cool if it could be done that way.  Why pay for data
+> center space, hardware, electricity and big bandwidth when you could
+> have a community-provided "cloud" for free? :o)
+
+Because there are some authentication and integrity issues which are not
+simple to solve: we have to be sure that the binary packages really come
+from the unmodified SRPM (so that it does not contains malware).
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+