Peter Donald wrote:
>
>> On rubix (my Linux box), I installed Xvfb and added the following lines to
>> my cron job, before and after the build respectively:
>>
>>    /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :8 &
>>    export DISPLAY=:8
>>
>>    kill `ps -eo pid,comm | awk '/Xvfb/ { print $1 }'`
>
> Okay - that would not happen to be the same box the official builds are done
> on ? ;)

yup.

> But then again I was working away when the day switched to the next and thus
> all dependency names changed - however I could not figure out why my code
> that worked 10 minutes ago didn't work anymore. Eventually I figured it had
> ticked over to the new day ;)

???

The gen process creates a ".timestamp" file and uses the date from that.
"build gump clean" will wipe it out.  Other than that, it should stay
stable.  I do gump builds on my personal machine approximately one a week
and stay with the same date for days.  My timestamp is currently 20020205.

- Sam Ruby


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