On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:20:38PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 22:43 -0400, Chris Frey wrote: > > I'm working under the impression that Ubuntu PPA and Fedora 11 packages > > by Christopher Stover are allowed, and encouraged, to be snapshots from > > the git repo. This taks a bit of work on the part of the volunteer. > > I don't understand what that means, but I'll put it on my list to sort > out a git pull combined with a build service, hopefully it can be > scripted and popped into a crontab.
When I build a snapshot, I do it on a Debian Lenny system with all build dependencies installed. I use my own private devel git repo, which is available publically at http://repo.or.cz/w/barry.git In this repo are a number of branches. 'master' is the source code, and another one called 'scripts' is where I keep helper scripts for myself. In this branch I have a 'snapshot.sh' script which goes through the process of generating autoconf files, building the documentation, deleting unnecessary cache files, and compressing it into a tarball. It also creates a debian source package (tar, diff, dsc). So, when I say creating snapshots from the git repo, I mean grabbing the latest git tree, and running the snapshot.sh script, which can be part of the binary package process. So this looks something like this: git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/barry.git barry git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/barry.git handy-scripts cd handy-scripts git checkout -b scripts origin/scripts cd ../barry ../handy-scripts/snapshot.sh 0 15 master And a tarball appears under maintainer/build. Alternately, you can skip all that, and just build straight from the git tree: git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/barry.git barry cd barry ./buildgen.sh fakeroot -- debian/rules binary And .deb binary packages appear in the parent directory. I don't know if PPA binaries are built on the Ubuntu servers or on your own machine. Maybe you could explain your PPA process, and I could see how my releases fit into that? > Of course, sorry for the pause in service then, I basically let is slide > when that other fellow chipped in and said he'd been official barry > packer for a while. No worries. I need to sit down and have a long think about how I want to handle releases and binary packages too. I think services like your PPA and Chris Stover's Fedora packages end up being the most user-friendly for end users, so I'm re-evaluating my OBS work. Barry needs to be easy to install and run, and to get there has to be a team effort. :-) - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
