[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 16:15:24 Niels Breet wrote:
>> On Wed, August 26, 2009 16:44, Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 15:29, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> 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".
> ...
>> This can be done through a web interface, but I don't think many of the
>> hardcore coders, needing this functionality, would use that?
>
> I would if it meant the autobuilder would handle the dependencies!  I would
> even manually create the dependency graph using a web interface if analysing
> Build-Depends is too hard!
>
It's not hard. It's already solved task.

> It would be good if there was a way to upload the files using (say) scp to a
> staging area and then trigger the build using the web interface.
>
Too complicated, I'd say. I think developers would prefer using one tool.


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BR,
Ed