Re: rpmfusion mockbuild service ?
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:40:26 +0100, Thorsten wrote:
>> I thought it could be useful to see that a package can build
on all
>> available arch and supported releases - that a packager doesn't have
>> machines running ;-)
>
> Plague can do scratch-builds, also if configured to build only from
> cvs. They are called "testing" builds though and need additional
> build targets and optionally add-ons for the cvs Makefiles.
In the end it afaics makes a whole lot of work for a very small gain and
thus I think I can spend my time on things that are more important for
RPM Fusion.
It would not be a lot of work to duplicate the existing target config
files, rename them to *-scratch.cfg, set "testing = yes" and a
"-testing"
alias, and leave it to the packagers to use these extra build targets with
"plague-client build ..." manually instead of using "make build".
If popular enough, I'm sure somebody will contribute a Makefile*
modification to make it more convenient (and e.g. construct the build
target alias on-the-fly if $BUILD_FLAGS contains --scratch).
BTW, here it poor mens scratch build for RPM Fusion: Kick of a build,
watch it closely and kill it once the last arch finished (and before its
downloaded -- if you miss that point drop me a line and I'll delete the
package from the needsign repo)
It's the wrong approach IMO. A human bottle-neck where things could
be automated. I'd rather make available the Plague configuration in
RPM Fusion svn and be open for contributed changes.