[maemo-developers] Rebuild all chinook source packages on autobuilder

[From: Niels Breet]

Hi all,

Currently Ed Bartosh and I are working on taking all source packages from
the extras repository and try to build them on the autobuilder. The goal
of this chinook rebuild effort is to get a set of packages buildable 'from
scratch'.

Once we are able to build all(most?) packages on chinook, we can try to
automatically build them for diablo. So we can have a lot of packages in
the diablo repository at release of diablo.

There is a web page[1] up with the first run, which was done over the
weekend. All packages are listed in build order, based on dependencies,
with their build results for i386 and armel. If a package build failed, a
link to the build log is provided.

If you provide a source package in extras, please check if your package is
building OK. If you only provide binary packages in extras, we would
like to encourage you to provide source packages too! We could really use
some help from the community in pushing towards 100% OK build of every
package in extras.

When you have updated your package to fix the issues, please use the
'request rebuild' option on the packages list. This gives us the
opportunity to track changes as a result of the list. We will rebuild
packages on a regular interval and post a summary to this list. Let's see
if we can get all packages to build!


--
Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster


[1]
https://garage.maemo.org/extras-assistant/maemo_extras_chinook_rebuild.php


PS:
Please note that due to a build failure in python-2.5, all packages that
depend on python fail. So after this failure is fixed, a lot more packages
will build OK. I will contact the indt guys to get this sorted.