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

[From: Ed Bartosh]

Hi,

I restarted Nathan's build and autobuilder seems to be able to install
all build-deps.
You can see autobuilder logs here soon:
https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/sword_1.6.0a-0maemo1/

2009/10/22 Ed Bartosh <bartosh at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Please read my last message. The issue is fixed. Nobody should do
> anything except of SDK guys.
>
> 2009/10/22 Kamen Bundev <bundyo at gmail.com>:
>> 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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> Ed
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