[maemo-developers] Some autobuilder issues

[From: Andrew Zabolotny]

Hello!

I would like to discuss a couple of topics about the autobuilder here,
and I hope it's okay to do it here rather than in bugzilla, because
they aren't bugs.

First problem: I tried to upload yesterday the unrar and tar packages to
the autobuilder and while it worked fine for diablo, there was a
problem with the chinook builder.

The logs are here, for example:

https://garage.maemo.org/builder/chinook/tar_1.19-3maemo1/

As you can see, there's no gnupg package in chinook sdk. I'm using the
excellent mud-builder tool to build some of my packages, and it uses
dpkg-depcheck to find out the build dependencies. And indeed, gpg is
normally used during a build process - both to check the signature on
source .dsc file and to generate a signature for the binary .dsc file.

Is it possible to add somehow the gnupg package to chinook sdk
package repositories, or they are frozen forever? I can edit the control
file after every autobuild manually and remove gnupg from there, but
it's an awkward way to do things.

Second issue is with old packages in extras-devel. They are going to
accumulate over the head, the repository (especially the build-logs
directory) is already filled up and this is only going to become worse
with time. Would it be possible to remove a old package version (and its
build logs in garage/builder/ directory) when a newer package version
has been built?

If somebody is concerned by the fact that somebody may replace somebody
else's package and that one will be lost, this can be done only for
older packages where Maintainer: or Changed-By: field is the same as in
the newer package. This way it's up to the maintainer to keep the older
versions, if he needs then.

-- 
Andrew
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