On Jul 29, 2011, at 4:44 AM, Pierre Mersadier wrote:
Le jeudi 28 juillet 2011 à 19:42 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Pierre Mersadier wrote:
Hi HansChristoph,
Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 à 14:04 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
Ok, its posting now on the auto-builds page :)
.hc
I now trying to work with pbuilder which seems to be a very good tool to build debian packages for differents versions of debian/ubuntu distributions, my goal is to provide multiples x86_64 builds for ubuntu natty/maverick/etc/... and debian stable/unstable/etc/... all these builds could be done on the same 64bits computer. From what I understand it is really doable with pbuilder, I did some tests this morning.
somes questions/remarks :
A) is there some debian rules for the whole pdextended source tree ? 'pd-extended/pd' contains './debian 'but if I run pdebuild it seems it build only pd and not all the externals... see logs : http://pastebin.com/EK8MhaDj
B) alsoI had to delete pd/debian/patches/* because pdebuil wasn't able to apply patches to the source tree : <snip...> quilt --quiltrc /dev/null push -a || test $? = 2 Applying patch 01_big_endian.diff patching file src/s_audio_alsa.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 469. Hunk #2 FAILED at 581. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- rejects in file src/s_audio_alsa.c Patch 01_big_endian.diff does not apply (enforce with -f) dh_quilt_patch: quilt --quiltrc /dev/null push -a || test $? = 2 returned exit code 1 make: *** [build] Error 25 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 E: Failed autobuilding of package I: unmounting /var/cache/pbuilder/ccache filesystem I: unmounting dev/pts filesystem I: unmounting proc filesystem I: cleaning the build env I: removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//10491 and its subdirectories
So, on my free time I'll continue to test/learn because these tools seems very powerfull !
This would be really awesome to have all those builds. pbuilder is a very powerful tool, but sadly, the Pd-extended package is a big hack and not created in a way that'll let you use pbuilder, as far as I know. Instead, I've been setting up chroots with debootstrap. The build scripts can already handle many chroots as long as they are in / var/chroot.
Ok, I can try the chroot method, in fact I have already have a chrooted env for ubuntu on this server, but the way pbuilder works is just great (a one line command for build !). Build in a chroot environment seems to me much harder, as I dont know how to tell cron to run the comand inside the chrooted env...
The build script already changes to each chroot. You just need to cron the ~pd/auto-build/pd-extended/scripts/auto-build/run-automated- builder build script, then it'll look into ~pd/auto-build for builds to run (in the form of named folders, i.e. pd-extended). And it'll run the pd-extended-auto-builder.sh in each chroot it finds in /var/chroot.
(Also I understand that the only thing that pbuilder/pdebuild miss is ./debian folders (rules, changelog, etc) in each project (every externals and pd)... Maybe it is not a big deal as we can provide empty or fake infos to satisfy pdebuild ??)
There is no debian/rules for that package. My guess is that it would be a fair amount of work, but I could be wrong. Plus if that approach is more interesting to you, that'll probably mean that more work that's interesting is better than less annoying work.
.hc
Do you go to the pdcon 2011 in weimar ?
My wife and I just had a baby one week ago, so I can't go this year. I've been to every other, and almost nothing else would have made me miss the PdCon. Its always been a great time and immersive experience.
I understand what you mean, I have 2 boys : 2 and 9 years old, and they take a loooooot of time and energy, but hey! I love them ! :D
we keep in touch, pierre
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