DragonFly 3.4 release planning

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Fri Mar 29 15:34:38 PDT 2013


On 3/29/2013 22:44, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 05:25:35PM -0400, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Francois Tigeot<ftigeot at wolfpond.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Last time I tried it, poudriere crashed i386 systems due to memory
>>> exhaustion.
>>
>> Does this mean we won't have i386 binaries?
>
> I don't think it's impossible to produce i386 binaries, but it could
> take a significant effort and not be possible in this timeframe.

I'm not sure why ftigeot is having issues on i386.  I can build all of 
them on my i386 without issue in a single run (4600M ram, 56G 
swapcache).   For me, i386 works fast and I don't have memory exhaustion 
even with 4 slaves.


>
>>> Dedicated build machines with good network connectivity are needed for
>>> dports
>>> packages.  Uploading a complete set takes me about one week...
>>
>> Will a April 13-14th release target not work with this?

I don't see why not.



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