[maemo-developers] maemo-optify, autobuilder & /opt

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> writes:

> On Monday 02 November 2009 12:16:57 Ed Bartosh wrote:
>> 2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
>> > The buildbot would need to run "apt-get install maemo-optify" at the
>> > right time.  Any idea of how to do that?
>>
>> Right way to do it is to include it into SDK rootstrap. Other ways I
>> can think of look hackish.
>
> Can't we have the hacked dpkg-buildpackage add (if optification is turned on) 
> maemo-optify to the build dependencies?

No, dpkg-buildpackage does not install build dependencies, it just
checks whether they are satisfied.

What the buildbot could do (and maybe does), is to run

     apt-get upgrade

at one point.  This is important to get the target into a current state
in general.  If it does, we could just upload a newer version of
build-essential into extras-devel that depends on maemo-optify.

This is quite a correct way to go about this, I'd say.  The mess results
from the SDK repo not being identical to extras-devel (which I would
call a bug in itself).

To reduce the mess, we should probably first put a version of
maemo-optify and the modified build-essential into the sdk repo and make
a SDK release.  We can then still put newer versions of maemo-optify
into extras-devel.

So, does the auto-builder run apt-get upgrade?