[maemo-developers] Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/8/26 Anderson Lizardo <anderson.lizardo at openbossa.org>:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm thinking about to add this feature to autobuilder. With developers
>> don't need to prepare package's source and upload it to autobuilder
>> queue. They just need to tag the sources.
>>
>> This is how i plan to implement it:
>> 1. Svn hook will be creating description file or record in the
>> database if new tag appears in tags/autobuilder/<product> directory
>> for any garage project.
>> 2. Special cron job will fetch new tag, build source package and put
>> it into autobuilder incoming directory.
>> 3. Autobuilder will build it the same way as it does currently.
>>
>> How does it look? Any ideas/suggestions?
>
> It would be nice if it could support those projects that keep only the
> debian/ directory under revision control. We do that for many PyMaemo
> packages, because there is no point keeping the entire source if we
> are only touching the debian packaging. Then we currently using some
> scripts that generate the source packages for us (and even build
> locally for testing).
>
> One idea might be to use some custom field in debian/control (see
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s5.7)
> that point to the original .dsc file in Debian, e.g.:
>
> XC-Original-Dsc:
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dbus-python/dbus-python_0.83.0-1.dsc
>
> Then in case the autobuilder would simply do:
>
> dget <url_to_dsc>
> dpkg-source -x *.dsc
> rm -rf */debian
> cp -a /path/to/debian */debian
>
> The reason it should not point simply to the orig tarball is that some
> (misbehaved IMHO) packages keep changes directly on the sources, that
> are applied only when the diff.gz is applied with dpkg-source.
>

Added to the TODO list.

-- 
BR,
Ed