Good news, bad news on the repository conversion

[Janus Weil]

2018-07-09 2:27 GMT+02:00 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
> There is good news bad news on the GCC repository conversion.
>
> The good news is that I have solved the only known remaining technical
> problem in reposurgeon blocking the conversion.  I've fixed the bug
> that prevented execute permissions from being carried by branch
> copies.

Great to hear that there is progress on that front!


> The bad news is that my last test run overran the memnory capacity of
> the 64GB Great Beast.  I shall have to find some way of reducing the
> working set, as 128GB DD4 memory is hideously expensive.

Or maybe you could use a machine from the GCC compile farm?

According to https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm, there are three
machines with at least 128GB available (gcc111, gcc112, gcc119).

Cheers,
Janus