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

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/8/26 Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net>:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:54:13 Ed Bartosh wrote:
>> 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.
>
> How is the version specified?  Is the tag name used?
>
Version is specified in debian/changelog, which is standard way for
Debian packages, I believe.

> Will it handle build dependencies?  I.e. if I create an autobuild tag for
> libaaa and also for application-aaa (with a build dependency on libaaa), will
> it submit the library build first?  Will it wait for it to finish before
> submitting the application build?
>
This is another story and much more complicated to implement.
However if community wants this we can start to discuss possible ways
to implement it.

> Personally, I would much rather the autobuilder dependency problem was fixed
> (with some method for submiting multiple packages with build dependencies and
> having them build in the right order, with the dependencies being satisfied)
> instead of this particular feature.
>
Submitting is the main problem. As far as I know dput can't upload
several packages at the same time. Any ideas how to do this?


> But I realise others may disagree!
True. Most of developers developing one application and don't care
about this feature.
Main supporters for it is your project, pymaemo, efl and a few others,
who has a lot of packages. And most of them have their own workarounds
implemented.

-- 
BR,
Ed