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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hudson wrote:
>>> Erm - my mistake. We won't yet have generalised builders that can accept
>>> jobs for different archs, but any builder should be able to do branch
>>> jobs (ie. non soyuz-build jobs).
>>
>> I hope that's the case.  I guess it means the other job types need to be
>>  script-based, which I think they are at least for the recipe stuff.
> 
> Well, the recipe stuff doesn't exist yet :-)  But I think it's a very
> sensible idea to run possibly-unruly code in a subprocess and so I'm
> sure we'll have a script as an entry point.

Well my point is that the builders are arch-specific, so unless the job
is exclusively a script then it limits which builders it can run on.