On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 at 08:00, Sebastian Kuzminsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the buildbot has very little utility now that uspace is the norm.
Firstly, relieved to hear from you Seb, I was starting to get a little worried about you when emails went unanswered. One place that the builbot(s) do have utility is in uploading the docs, I think? (ie, the subject of this thread) I am curious who is still using RTAI (other than me). I have occasionally hand-crafted RTAI debs (since the Buildbot RTAI builders were superseded) It should be fairly easy to move the stable branch docs updates to Github (as Github currently creates .debs and so I imagine that the requisite files exist at some point and can be copied across.) Probably the dev docs exist at some point too? I don't _think_ that the current script is publicly visible? The various scripts in LinuxCNC/infrastructure on Github seem to be rather older? I am nervous of putting 2.10 debs in GitHub "Releases" as they are not "released". Another place where the Buildbots are useful (only to me) is in putting all the right files for a release into the correct structure for our debian repository. Updating the repository using files from Github involves quite a lot of renaming and placing individual files in place (also some things, like "Changes" files are not generated). There is a broader discussion to be had about whether we should continue to run our own Debian repository, and to offer the installer ISO and the Pi images. We could suggest that folk install the base Debian ISO and then get LinuxCNC either from the Debian repository, or manually from the .debs on GitHub. At the moment I think I come down on the side of keeping our custom .ISO, as many of our potential users are very much not Linux enthusiasts, and we should make installation as simple as possible,. (However, the latest .ISO I created doesn't actually install on one of my tests PCs, and distributing an ISO that doesn't work is probably worse than distributing no ISO at all.) (If anyone want to try it, I think it is this one here: https://www.linuxcnc.org/iso/linuxcnc_2.9.6-amd64.hybrid.iso It should install Trixie but seems to not show the correct splash-screen in UEFI mode (minor issue) but also, on my N100-DC, crashes to a pink flashing screen in the last stages of the install, leaving a system that boots to a grub prompt) -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
