On Jul 20, 2010, at 9:35 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 13:59 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> On 07/20/2010 01:43 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: >>>> changeset-between-updates sanity testing ( in as much as what sanity >>>> means to the CentOS userbase => things haven't changed ). >>> >>> Is the CentOS buildsystem available somewhere for people to hack on ? >>> >> >> Its effectively plague, which is public ( although not going anywhere ). > --- > Any patches to it to use a 100% NFS Build Root? Instead of having to > use a Local disk for the yum database locking? Curious if you have a > way around this. > Yum or rpmdb locking? If rpmdb, Berkeley DB can be mapped locally, or mapped to a RDONLY store on NFS that NEVER changes so that rpmdb locks can be safely disabled. Yum can fix its own issues. 73 de Jeff