Re: Debian Porterbox machine

Hossein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.amd64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks brian. That was a best answer.
But I have other Q:
What is the TBD machines?
Excuse me about that. There are no information on Debian wiki to 
explaining the purpose of TBD machine.

On 04/17/2012 05:31 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:

The porterboxes are designed for debugging build problems that a
maintainer might have.  While most maintainers have access to an amd64
machine, if a problem occurs on sparc, a maintainer would be able to use
the appropriate porterbox for determining why the package is not working
or why it fails to build.  There are porterboxes for every architecture.

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 08:26:08PM +0430, [email protected] wrote:
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>> The buildd machines by the aim of sbuild tries to build packages for
>> every supported architecture, but what does porterBox machines? I
>> don't know that!!!
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