Hi Alberto,

So are you saying people should list the last release as the moduleset in
their ~/.jhbuildrc, and just build a current version of the module they are
going to hack on? Or did I not understand what you just said?

Thanks,
Meg

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jhbuild does build from tarballs!
>
> This is what I'm trying to say, each release has a moduleset for
> jhbuild with a least of each tarball (have a look at the moduleset on
> the ftp url I posted). You can configure your jhbuild to use that
> point release _and_ a single module from git.
>
> 2013/2/7 Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>:
> > OK, what you're saying is that you get all the modules you want to get
> > except the one module you want to hack on.  You get that from git, and
> then
> > it should work.
> >
> > This makes sense because it's not likely going to run into dependency
> > problems like you would if you get all your packages from the master
> > packages.
> >
> > The downside though is that you have to do a configure;make;make install
> for
> > a lot of packages.  Unless there is some hack on jhbuild to build from
> > tarballs?
> >
> > sri
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you use the last point release moduleset[0] from tarballs I find
> >> the experience faster and less error prone.
> >>
> >> Then I configure the module I want to hack on to build from master and
> >> this usually works, in some weird cases, master requires master from
> >> another dependency, but this is very rare and addressable case.
> >>
> >> [0] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/releng/3.7.4/
> >>
> >> 2013/2/7 Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>:
> >> > I'm not sure how I missed this thread..
> >> >
> >> > Regarding maintaining jhbuild  up to gtk+ - I would actually like to
> see
> >> > this up to at gnome-shell.  We have a number of people who I have
> >> > convinced
> >> > to help volunteer to resolve bugs for GNOME 3.7, but are very
> frustrated
> >> > with getting jhbuild to build for them.
> >> >
> >> > We really should make it a goal to get an SDK for our volunteers to
> help
> >> > fix
> >> > issues.
> >> >
> >> > We are considering doing a jhbuild hackfest once a month for
> volunteers
> >> > to
> >> > learn and understand how to build under jhbuild and grow enough
> builders
> >> > to
> >> > make it self sustaining.
> >> >
> >> > But getting a certain set of modules always in buildable state is a
> >> > great
> >> > goal and I hope we can do this.
> >> >
> >> > sri
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement
> >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On 01/16/2013 07:39 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Hello Colin,
> >> >>>
> >> >> Hi Martin, Colin,
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>> Colin Walters [2013-01-15 15:34 -0500]:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> >On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:07 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> >> >>>> >
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> > >We have experimented with that a bit, by building
> >> >>>>> > >
> >> >>>>> > >
> >> >>>>> > >
> https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Raring/view/JHBuild%20Gnome/
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> >
> >> >>>> >Interesting!  Looks quite useful.  Are you doing anything with
> >> >>>> >respect to the "jhbuild sysdeps --install" infrastructure or is
> >> >>>> >the system package set maintained manually?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Right now in our Juju charm it's a manual list:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jibel/charms/quantal/jhbuild/trunk/view/head:/files/jhbuild.config/gnome-core.sysdeps
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I'm not quite sure why; Jean-Baptiste, did jhbuild sysdeps not work
> >> >>> well enough in principle?
> >> >>>
> >> >> In Quantal, there was missing dependencies, so I went the straightest
> >> >> way
> >> >> and installed them directly. Now that I have a better understanding
> how
> >> >> jhbuild works that's something I want to reconsider for Raring and
> >> >> avoid
> >> >> maintaining them in 2 different places.
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Jean-Baptiste
> >> >> IRC: jibel
> >> >>
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> >> Cheers,
> >> Alberto Ruiz
> >
> >
>
>
>
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