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

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/8/26 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 15:29, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/8/26 Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net>:
>>
>>> 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?
>
> Bypass dput and use scp directly?debian/control's Build-Depends should
> be enough to say something like "if there is a dependency on something
> else on the queue, build it first".
>
Me personally don't like this. It looks hackish. Moreover, this is not
enough. If autobuilder starts in the middle of upload it can pick up
wrong packages, because their dependencies have not been uploaded yet.

-- 
BR,
Ed