Hi Daniel,

Could http://jenkins-debian-glue.org/  be an option for you?

BR
Fabrice

2015-02-26 9:38 GMT+01:00 Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro>:
>
> For some of my projects I'd like to test the ability to generate a
> package from every upstream commit.
>
> In the past I've encountered two types of problem:
>
> a) upstream makes some change (e.g. leaving some new header out of their
> distribution tarball) or something else that is only discovered after
> they release a new version
>
> b) something else changes in unstable (e.g. somebody uploaded a new
> version of a reSIProcate dependency just a few days before I made a
> reSIProcate release, this would have been a much easier thing to deal
> with before I made the upstream tag)
>
> and I feel that making regular Jenkins builds of the packages, possibly
> for every upstream commit and every dependency change in unstable, would
> help detect problems sooner and usually at a point in time when it is
> easier to resolve them.
>
> Has anybody looked at using travis-ci or any other cloud platform to
> automate such testing of upstream commits?
>
> Is there any standard way of setting up Jenkins to do this?
>
> In most cases, I can also get the debian/* files into the upstream
> repositories.  Can anybody comment on how the debian/changelog should be
> maintained if making such builds automatically?  In particular, what
> format should be used for the version numbers if building from Git commits?
>
> For some of the packages, there are a set of related dependencies, e.g.
> to build postbooks, I first need to build the latest openrpt and csvimp
> and install their dev packages.  So the Jenkins server may need to
> create the openrpt packages and publish them to a local apt repository
> and then use sudo to install them when it wants to build postbooks.
>
>
>
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