[maemo-developers] Autobuilder for maemo extras repository

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 00:02 +0200, ext Thomas Schmidt wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 26.06.2008, 23:58 +0300 schrieb Ed Bartosh:
> > I'd suggest you to use Maemo Extras Assistant instead of dput:
> > https://garage.maemo.org/extras-assistant/index.php
> > It puts .dsc after all other sources.
> 
> Yes, this would work, but i would very much prefer dput over any
> web-interface. :)
> 
> > > So it would be very nice if you could change the code just check the
> > > mtime of the .changes file, because this file seems to be the last one
> > > uploaded by dput.
> > > 
> > I can't. Autobuilder doesn't use .changes at all
> > It needs only sources, so .dsc is enough for it.
> 
> Ok, but then it should be at least possible to check the mtime of the
> tarball and/or .diff.gz - at least one of them should be listed in
> every .dsc file.
> 
No code modifications are needed. We've already increased timeout. If it
doesn't help we will increase it even more.

> Btw: Which one of the scripts checks if the gpg-signatures of the
> uploads are valid, shouldn't this script check both, the signature in
> the .dsc and the signature in the .changes files?
> 
Current version doesn't work with .changes files. They're just not
needed, because all information about source files available from .dsc.
In future autobuilder will definitely work with .changes for several
reasons, but now it's just not needed.

> > If it's not convenient for you to use web assistant I can just increase
> > timeout. 
> 
> Yes, of course this would work too, but i guess some other people would
> not be very happy about such a change (*looking at Graham Cobb*)
> especially as it would require to be at least 1300 seconds in my
> case. ;-)
> 
OK, we will increase it to 1500 then. 

Niels, can you help with this please?

> > Another way is to change dput. Which dput version do you use, BTW? 
> 
> I am using version 0.9.2.32 from current Debian Lenny, but i would
> consider changing dput to be able to upload to the autobuilder a very
> ugly hack. As far as i can see, the autobuilder should be changed to
> work with the unmodified dput.
> 
Furtunately it doesn't have to be changed, timeout is part of the
configuration file.