Compiling Packages

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Mar 10 10:24:00 PST 2004


On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:35:48AM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote:

> > What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast
> > machines with good network connectivity.  Individual machines aren't
> > much help, I'm afraid.  Thanks for the offer though.
> >
> 
> Just a thought - a distcc based system should be able to take advantage of
> such offers. (No, I'm not volunteering to set one up).

Many packages cannot be built with distcc (I tried), and network
latency would be a big handicap for using remote machines.  Then there
are the security concerns, etc.

Kris
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