Re: Suggestion: disable offloading for texlive builds on hydra?

[John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>]

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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 03:36:03AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
     When texlive is built on hydra, the build slave that built it is tied up
     for 12 hours or more waiting for the build outputs (over 3 gigabytes!)
     to be transferred back to hydra.
     
     By design, only one transfer can happen at a time from a given build
     slave, so during those 12 hours, the build slave's CPU is left idle, and
     typically another 3 built-but-not-yet-transferred packages must wait
     until the texlive transfer finishes.

Why is it designed like that?  It seems like a poor design to me.
     
     I suggest that we arrange for hydra.gnu.org to build texlive locally for
     x86_64 and i686, to avoid this problem.

Would it help if texlive was split into more outputs?  For example, the docs 
take up a lot of space, and not everyone needs them.
     
J'

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