[maemo-developers] Autobuilder and build-dependencies from extras-devel

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/7/21 Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> ext Ed Bartosh wrote:
>>>
>>> I haven't used the autobuilder.  Is it possible to see how many/what
>>> packages are in the queue?
>>>
>>> (if there are lot and/or large/slow to build packages, one would
>>> know not to wait anything to happen very soon...)
>>>
>> Unfortunately there is no such a possiblility. Autobuilder doesn't
>> have any web interface at all. You can only see build results and logs
>> after build is finished. However, considering the fact that we have
>> only one builder machine even if users would know how many packages in
>> the queue it wouldn't help them much. What would help is to know which
>> packages are being built at the moment + amount of packages waiting in
>> the queue.
>
> Thanks!  I guess there's no way dput could tell that information?
>

At least I don't know about that. From my point of view the proper way
to do this is to make web frontend, which would allow to see build
info, cancel/restart builds, see build statistics and so on.
The best place to integrate this functionality to is
http://maemo.org/packages/, IMHO.
As far as I know Niels is doing something about it. At least he was
changing autobuilder to put some info into Midgard database recently.

-- 
BR,
Ed