[maemo-developers] Maemo-Optify & Builder Bots = Broken?

[From: Kamen Bundev]

Hi guys,

I've played around with maemo-optify yesterday and decided to instead of
creating the paths in the package subdir, to create a symlink to /opt and
drop everything there before packaging. Wrong move, dpkg-deb doesn't follow
symlinks, it packages them :) So, the logical step was to instead of symlink
to /opt, to create home/opt in the package subdir and symlink opt/ to it.
That worked and I have a package ready that will work in the device, but I'm
hesitant to try it in the autobuilder because if the autobuilder is like
scratchbox, then the package will be installed to /home/opt but the /opt
symlinks will point to somewhere else (/targets/links/opt) and the build
will fail anyway.

So my question is - is this the right way to go about this and can I control
where the /opt dir is symlinked to in the autobuilder?

Regards:
Bundyo

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Nathan Anderson
<nathan at andersonsplace.net>wrote:

>  Kamen,
>
>     I build both binary target and source targets debs in my scratchbox
> before I upload.    For instance last night I had to rebuild the binary debs
> about 20 times (trying to get a weird make file rule to work).  Once I got
> it working then I would copy my rules to a fresh copy and re-run a source
> deb then re-run a binary once more just to make sure it wasn't "left" over
> stuff causing a success.  ;-)
>
>    So, I don't think it has anything to do with the scratchbox.  I suspect
> it as Ed found something to do with the symlink -> directory or something in
> their on the auto-builder.
>
> Nathan.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Kamen Bundev [mailto:bundyo at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:14 PM
>
> *To:* Nathan Anderson
> *Cc:* maemo-developers at maemo.org
> *Subject:* Re: Maemo-Optify & Builder Bots = Broken?
>
> Nah, that's not enough. Still fails.
>
> Another difference is that I'm building my optified package in scratchbox
> before upload and the other people are using the autobuilder, so the problem
> should be somewhere else.
>
> Regards:
> Bundyo
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Kamen Bundev <bundyo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nah, that's not enough. Still fails.
>>
>> Regards:
>> Bundyo
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Kamen Bundev <bundyo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like the only difference here is that my /opt should be pointing to
>>> /targets/links/opt which is symlinked to the proper target on target change.
>>> Uploading the new package to extras now.
>>>
>>> Regards:
>>> Bundyo
>>>
>>>   On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Nathan Anderson <
>>> nathan at andersonsplace.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ed,
>>>>
>>>>        I believe this is what you are asking:
>>>> FREMANTLE_ARMEL  cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7
>>>> FREMANTLE_X86    cs2007q3-glibc2.5-i486
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nathan
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Ed Bartosh [mailto:bartosh at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:03 PM
>>>> To: Nathan Anderson
>>>> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Maemo-Optify & Builder Bots = Broken?
>>>>
>>>>  2009/10/21 Nathan Anderson <nathan at andersonsplace.net>:
>>>> > Ed,
>>>> >
>>>> >        Sure can (and following the chain).
>>>> >
>>>> > ls -l / | grep opt
>>>> >        lrwxrwxrwx    1 root  root      18 Oct  6 22:36 opt ->
>>>> > /targets/links/opt
>>>> >
>>>> > ls -l /targets/links/ | grep opt
>>>> >        lrwxrwxrwx  1 maemo 1000 26 Oct 19 16:55 opt ->
>>>> > /targets/FREMANTLE_X86/opt
>>>> >
>>>> I've found the difference!
>>>> In your environment /targets/<target>/opt is a directory. In autobuilder
>>>> environment it's a symlink:
>>>>
>>>> > ls -l /targets/maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c/
>>>> > |grep opt
>>>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 builder1 builder1    9 Oct 21 23:50 opt -> /home/opt
>>>>
>>>> And it looks like it becomes symlink after rootstrap unpacking. Look:
>>>> [sbox-maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c: ~] > sb-conf
>>>> re
>>>> -f
>>>> [sbox-maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c: ~] > ls -l
>>>> /targets/maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c/ |grep opt
>>>> drwxrwxr-x  2 1005 1006 4096 Oct 21 23:56 opt
>>>> [sbox-maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c: ~] > sb-conf
>>>> in
>>>> --etc --devkits
>>>> [sbox-maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c: ~] > ls -l
>>>> /targets/maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c/ |grep opt
>>>> drwxrwxr-x   2 builder1 builder1 4096 Oct 21 23:56 opt
>>>> [sbox-maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c: ~] > sb-conf
>>>> in
>>>> --fakeroot Installing fakeroot version 1.4.2.1...
>>>> [sbox-maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c: ~] > ls -l
>>>> /targets/maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c/ |grep opt
>>>> drwxrwxr-x   2 builder1 builder1 4096 Oct 21 23:56 opt
>>>> [sbox-maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c: ~] > sb-conf
>>>> rs
>>>> /scratchbox/packages/maemo-sdk-rootstrap_5.0_armel.tgz
>>>> Unpacking rootstrap...
>>>> [sbox-maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c: ~] > ls -l
>>>> /targets/maemo5-arm-183e1d1de998260fa89b870d65b22998c6908b6c/ |grep opt
>>>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 1005 1006    9 Oct 21 23:57 opt -> /home/opt
>>>>
>>>> So, the difference is in rootstraps. Tell me which rootstrap do you use
>>>> and
>>>> I'll compare it with the one autobuilder uses.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> BR,
>>>> Ed
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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