On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ben Armstrong wrote: > This is an idea I've been tossing about with some other developers > on irc. It would be nice to have an automated build (nightly or > otherwise) of sourceforge. My particular area of interest is glx > at: > > http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ > > I am told that all I need to do is get it from CVS and execute > > debian/buildsnap > > Still, this is a bit more painful than necessary ... if *every* > Debian user had to do this, just think of the waste of time & > effort. Why can't a debian.org box do a debian/buildsnap for > glx (and, indeed, as many other sourceforge packages as possible) > and put them up as a debian-snap (or debian-woody-snap?) distro > to add as a deb line to apt/sources.list?
Or indeed, any other CVS project. Sourceforge or not. The GNOME CVS tree springs to mind. (it's with GNOME in mind that Jim started the -snapshots list, I believe) I think this is an excellent idea. As a wrinkle, I'd suggest that each CVS package be treated as a different section (in the sense that contrib and main are currently different sections), so that the sources.list looks like this: deb http://lully.debian.org/debian-snaps potato glx enlightenment \ quakeforge The reason I think that this may be wise is that some packages debian-snaps may have C/R/P lines which might cause apt or dselect to auto-select, which would be inadvisable unless you explicitly want them. I.e., I think that even though I have the debian-snaps line in my souirces.list, I should be made to explicitly 'opt-in' to each development package out there. > > Then those of us who like "bleeding edge" stuff could one-stop-shop > for binary packages of all the latest-and-greatest. > > The only possible wrinkle is that on any given day a build could fail (or > build a crappy package) so being able to fall back "n" builds to the > last "known good" build if things break would be a nice frill. This is a very good point. No super-cunning answers spring to mind. Maybe someone else can think of one. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
