Hi Leif,
So, I was thinking of firing up a Large (7.5 GB) EC2 instance to compile it.
that's a nice idea. :-)
Does a similar option exist for 32-bit?
No, I'm afraid not. I have two ArchLinux boxes available that I use for building the i686 repository, but neither machine has more than 1GB of memory. As of now, there are several packages that cannot be compiled on those machines -- such as the latest version of 'crypto-api'. I'm not sure what to do about that. So far, I've simply avoided updating those packages to the latest versions in HABS, but this approach clearly won't scale. Maybe I should by some RAM? One of those machines is an EeePC, though, and I'm not sure whether I could even extend its memory. Anyway, at the time being, I wouldn't be able to build Gitit for i686.
gitit is a nice tool to run, but the build requirements might put off casual usage - this is a real advantage to having pre-built binary packages available.
Yes, indeed!
Also, in the future, should I throw in a heads up when packages take say, over 1GB of RAM to build?
Yes, please do. That's very helpful information. We can figure out how to deal with the situation on a case-by-case basis, which feels quite reasonable. Take care, Peter