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

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/8/26 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> ext Ed Bartosh <bartosh at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It doesn't matter what triggers the build in this particular case.
>> Dput doesn't support multiple package uploads, period.
>
> There is a established protocol for uploading packages to a buildbot.
> The formats of the files are defined, and it is also defined which file
> to upload last.  There is no point in deviating from this, independent
> of whether you want to upload one or multiple packages.
>

> Creating a buildbot for Debian packages that triggers on .dsc instead of
> on .changes seems pointless to me.  Why would you do such a thing?
>
You're right. May be I should change the code. It works without this
for year and a half already, but it make sence to change it. Thank you
for pointing out to this.

> If you want to upload multiple packages, you need to extend the
> protocol.  (Otherwise you can just run dput in a loop.)  The only sane
> chance I see for this is by extending the .changes file to be able to
> talk about multiple packages.  Another reason to trigger on .changes, I
> would say.
>
> It might be enough to just allow more than one paragraph in the .changes
> files, and make the guarantees that packages are build in order of their
> build-dependencies and the build aborts as soon as one package fails.
> (If I understand right what people are looking for.)
>
Adding new paragraph would require to make a tool or change existing
tools, right?

> And maybe some way to reuse already uploaded .tar.gz and diff.gz files
> so that people don't have to reupload them.
>
> I know I should shut up since I am not writing any of the code here, but
> you know how hard that is for me... :)
>
No, you shouldn't. This was actually the most constructive feedback in
this thread. Thank you and please, continue.

What do you think about using pre_upload_command and
post_upload_command features of dput? If we allow to create directory
using pre_upload_command, uploading multiple sources into it and put
some flag for triggering the build in post_upload_command would it
solve the problem?

-- 
BR,
Ed