[maemo-developers] Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/8/31 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> ext Ed Bartosh <bartosh at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> [To upload a multi-package build request] It might be enough to just
>>> allow more than one paragraph in the .changes files, and make the
>>> guarantees that packages are build in order of their
>>> build-dependencies and the build aborts as soon as one package fails.
>>> (If I understand right what people are looking for.)
>>
>> Adding new paragraph would require to make a tool or change existing
>> tools, right?
>
> Yes, of course.  I think ideally dput should be changed to understand
> the new .changes format.  A entry in .dput.cf could say for each remote
> whether it is supported or not (the default being "no"), so that people
> don't upload multi-package requests to queues that don't support it.
>
> Maybe it is a good idea to add a new 'header' paragraph at the beginning
> of multi-package .changes file so that queues that don't support it fail
> very visibly and don't just ignore the second and later paragraphs.
>
I see this way as much more complicated than way I proposed in this
thread. Please, read this message and comment if you don't mind:
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2009-August/020315.html

It would also require to modify dput just a bit, but no changes to
.changes format are required.

-- 
BR,
Ed