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

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:00, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/26 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
>>
>> 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.

Not if the .changes files are uploaded last as - AIUI - these are what
trigger the build to occur. This is why it's already beholden on
people using scp to uploade tarballs etc. before the .changes.

If Build-Depends is too hackish, we could introduce a new simple file
format for the auto-builder.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Maemo Community Council chair