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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 11:23:41 Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> Julian Edwards 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.
> >
> > Translations guys, what about the translations import jobs?
> 
> For now they don't care about the architecture; the current system
> effectively picks an arbitrary architecture and ignores the rest.

This is similar to what Soyuz does for arch independent builds.  We have an 
outstanding bug to be able to use any available architecture.

> That *might* be worth changing at some point in the future if it
> suddenly becomes easy to do, but the drive right now is to make sure
> packages don't produce architecture-specific templates.

I think it will be easy to do that from the build farm PoV as we can just 
schedule the job for any builder.