| Wouter Verhelst 2004-08-08, 5:51 pm |
| On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:55:01PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
>
> [Wouter Verhelst]
>
> Ah, very good. It must be a new feature since the last time I knew
> how this worked. 
Well, not really. With the current state of things, not much is
possible; but the packages /are/ sorted more-or-less in build-depend
order -- libraries are built first, standard and base are, too.
> Is it also looking at the time since the upload,
No.
> or can low-priority packages "starve"?
Yes.
> Looking at
> <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/info...istdiff.html.gz> I
> suspect so, as www-sql was uploaded 40 days ago and are still not
> built on alpha.
>
> Is the buildd ordering algorithm documented anywhere? It would be
> interesting to read how the packages are sorted for building.
http://people.debian.org/~wouter/wanna-build-states
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