[maemo-developers] Some autobuilder issues

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:48 +0400, ext Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
> 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/
> 
It seems that you've managed to fix it already, right?

> 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.
> 
If you need gnupg you can add it to extras[-devel] like any other package. 
Why it should be added to sdk?

> 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?
> 
Good point. I think that build directories older than month can be
deleted.

Regards,
--
Ed