[Pkg-kde-extras] kde-extras Extending buildserver.net (debian/ ubuntu buildd environment)

[Tom Albers]

Hi Mark, 

Does that mean that when I've a package ready I can let it test there to see 
if it builds on all platforms / distro's? Can I do that, or is that only for 
the uploaders?

Toma


Op Monday 09 October 2006 00:57, schreef Mark Purcell:
> Hi Team,
>
> One of the other teams I work with on alioth (pkg-voip-maintainers) has a
> buildd environment setup to take the archive from svn.debian.org and build
> for Debian SID, ETCH and SARGE (i386, amd64, powerpc and s390) as well as
> Ubuntu DAPPER and BREEZY (i386, amd64 and powerpc).
> http://buildserver.net
>
> I see this as a great step forward on working with debian/ ubuntu from the
> same set of debian/ sources. It also improves the quality of packages, by
> making explicit the changes required for building in all environments.
>
> After discussion with the buildserver.net guy, thanks Kilian, he has setup
> a similar buildd environment for kde-extras...  My commit yesterday
> provided the necessary get-orig-source target (somewhat a quick hack as
> well)..  and there is still some tweaking which needs to be done to get the
> archive building smoothly... As well as necessary cross/ back porting
> requirements...
>
> Anyway have a look at http://status.buildserver.net/ and see the status of
> our old friends as they progress through, and have a look at the pkg-voip
> svn archive to see how we can setup branches, forks as necessary for the
> various dists we can now support. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip
>
> I have also asked Kilian to provide buildd results and commits through to
> the pkg-kde-extras lists.
>
> One important thing is the use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog for the
> work in progress.  The buildd will go back to the last released version to
> do it's magic..  Also have a look at the achive of pkg-voip-maintainers for
> some other examples/ discussion:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-voip-maintainers
>
> Mark