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#1 2006-09-12 16:23:08
- mucknert
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How do the build-machines work?
Hi there!
This is a question for the people behind Arch Linux. I was curious about this all the time and now I am going to ask: how do the build-machines of the Arch Linux Packages work? I mean the beasts that give us our daily current, extra, community and maybe testing and unstable. Are those normal Arch Boxen that just have each and every package installed and compile all the time? I would think that this is a far too unstable setup for such a purpose. What is the mechanism that creates packages from the myriad of PKGBUILDs and puts them online? Please, someone enlighten me about the infrastructure of package-deployment!
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#2 2006-09-12 16:37:52
- phrakture
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Re: How do the build-machines work?
Actually, no. We don't (yet) have any build machines. All packaging is done via makepkg on developer machines.
Xentac has created pacbuild to do what you suggest, but we haven't moved to using it as of yet.
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#3 2006-09-12 19:52:47
- Neuro
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Re: How do the build-machines work?
I really didn't know ArchLinux was essentially homebrew 
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