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

[From: Niels Breet]

On Tue, July 21, 2009 10:01, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> 2009/7/21 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:07, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/7/20 Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I haven't used the autobuilder.  Is it possible to see how
>>>> many/what packages are in the queue?
>>>>
>>> Unfortunately there is no such a possiblility.
>>>
>>
>> When I go to the Extras Assistant web interface, it shows me the
>> "build queues" for Fremantle, Diablo and Chinook:
>>
>>
>> https://garage.maemo.org/extras-assistant/index.php
>>
>>
>> At the time of writing all three are empty. Or is it not showing me
>> what I think it is, and is it showing me only my packages?
>>
> I didn't know about that. Most probably Niels can explain what's it
> showing. My guess is this is packages waiting for the build. They could be
> just uploaded and waiting for being picked up by autobuilder or they can
> be waiting for autobuilder to finish current builds.

This view is a simple listing for .dsc files in the incoming-builder dirs.
This only shows packages waiting to be picked up, not the ones that are
currently building. This was just a quick hack to show something when
there was a large queue waiting.

>
>> It certainly does show when *I've* uploaded something, so either way,
>> it shouldn't be hard to make a UI which shows the complete build queues
>> of everything.
>>
> True.
>

Now that we have the packages interface, I intend to include build queue
and buildlog information there. I've already written the build status
handler, we just need to add calls inside the autobuilder at the correct
locations.

>
>
> --
> BR,
> Ed

- Niels