Re: Improve quality of packages in SVN and of uploads

["Eddy Petrişor" <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

On 26/07/06, Eddy Petrişor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/07/06, Goneri Le Bouder <goneri@rulezlan.org> wrote:
> > > On 26/07/06, Eddy PetriÅŸor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What do you think?
> > > Do we have a spare machine to do this. I could do most of the things
> > > for automation and SVN related things.
> > I can provide a UltraSparc for that. We can create a public repository
> > with these packages for people who want to help.
> > For me the main problem is the need of an unified build process.
>
> Wouldn't the following be enough?
>
> svn co package
> svn-buildpackage
>
> If #375973, and maybe #377880 would be fixed that could be done.
>
> > Some packages that uses svn-buildpackage (like Boson) and don't have there
> > tarball in tarballs/ because of there size.
> > Therefore we need a script for that.
> That should be placed, IMHO in svn/scripts/boson and that should be
> ran via a prebuild action (see #375973). That would be generic enough
> and elegant enough, IMO.
>
> > So i suggest to have a scripts/pacakge.sh for such case that call
> > svn-buildpackage if needed after.
> or have #377880 fixed and realx.
>
> > Something i want to see is to have EVERY package directly in
> > trunk/packages/. No more trunk/package/package-data and
> > trunk/package/package-data. This will reduct the complexity for scripting.
> Yes, indeed, but as I said, I think scripting is not needed anyway,
> *if* and only if we want to do buld related stuff.


Related to building automatically, I found this[1] on Lucas Wall's
sponsoring page[2]
It implements an autobuilder which checks source packages uploaded to
his build host.

When one does a svn-buildpackage or dpkg-buildpackage will have the
source package available anyway, so it would only mean that (when
tagging is done) the package is ready for upload, so we can link the
tagging to triggering building and uploading to a builder host (still
this would mean that two automatic builds will be done or the
sponsoree should do the build and the build host should check if the
package is tagged in our SVN).

What do you think?


[1] http://people.debian.org/~lwall/testpkg.pl
[2] http://people.debian.org/~lwall/sponsor.html
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