[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 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.
>
.dsc file triggers the build in current implementation, as far as I know.

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


-- 
BR,
Ed