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

[From: Jason Edgecombe]

Niels Breet wrote:
> 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.
>   

krb5 is failing because curses isn't installed. I thought I had removed
the dependency.

Openafs will fail because krb5 failed and because it needs the kernel
source. how should I set up for using kernel source using the autobuilder?

Jason