Re: Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> Lately there have been some buildfarm registrations for "Debian 
> testing/unstable" or similarly described machines. I have kicked back 
> against these, as the description seems to me to be far too open ended. 
> Likewise, I also have difficulty with Gentoo because a version there 
> seems to describe a build system but not any reasonably bounded set of 
> software.  The whole point of classifying buildfarm machines is so that 
> we can pin down problems to some class of machines, so I'm not really 
> sure what I should do in these cases that essentially represent highly 
> mobile targets.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

Well, the one downside to kicking these machines is that we won't get 
representation from the varying glibc/gcc combinations. It *almost* 
seems that we care more about:

Archicteture
32/64bit (I could be running 32bit on my Athlon64)
GCC version
glibc version

?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> cheers
> 
> andrew
> 
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