On 11/5/05, Dave Vasilevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 5, 2005, at 1:01 AM, Philip Lamb wrote: > > Originally, I was under the impression that there was a machine > > autobuilding packages and uploading the binaries. However this is > > obviously untrue. Does the fink project have the resources to have > > such an autobuild system established? Ideally, packages would be > > built as .info files are committed, and so there wouldn't be too > > much of a massive load. > > There exists a tool 'buildfink', written by Matt Sachs at Apple, > which essentially attempts to build (and validate) all of Fink. You > can find it in our 'scripts' module in CVS. We have the intention of > modifying it so it can work with a queue of .info files, at which > point it could be used to handle submissions from the tracker and/or > commits to a tree. Nobody has gotten around to that yet, but if you'd > like to hack on it you're welcome to! > > When it comes to a system to perform the builds on, we don't really > have anything at this point. A build box should ideally be a very > clean system, since we don't want any .debs to be accidentally > polluted. Also, we'd have to be careful it's under the control of > trusted people, since there's a security risk with distributing > binaries. Something to think about once we get sufficient work done > on buildfink. > > > Aside from hacking on buildfink, the best way to help is testing > packages. Maybe we should have a 'Test Week', when we ask all > developers to NOT write new packages, and instead test various > packages out and move them into stable? > > Another good thing would be to do more buildfink runs. If anybody has > a box that can churn for a week... > > Dave > > >
"Test week" sounds like a great idea. Maybe we should do the same for the tracker--have a "tracker week". -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
