Thank you Bjoern. Everything you have suggested has worked as far as I can go with it now; actual execution will need a 64-bit system, of course.
Just a couple of things more, if I may, please. (1) Should instructions for using the daily bibisect be added to "how to bibisect" <wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/HowToBibisect>? If I attempt this, would you be willing to review the work to keep me on the straight-and-narrow? (2) I suspect that `git checkout latest` as on that page is responsible for a lot of my difficulty. At least after I checked out master, I magically started getting most of the results you said I should get. Does this sound plausible? Again, thank you for your help. Terry. On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 17:40 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the late reply. I didnt find time to look into this earlier. > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:17:31AM -0400, Terrence Enger wrote: > > I am for the first time trying to use a "daily" bibisect. For the > > terminally curious, this is in aid of fdo#64686 "Bug in Contour > > Editor" <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64686>. > > To this end I downloaded and unpacked > > http://people.canonical.com/~j-lallement/libreoffice/binrepo/bibisect-4.0.tar.lzma > > (created 2013-05-08) and in the resulting binrepo/ I did > > `git checkout latest`. Questions and difficulties arising ... > > > > (*) The tar file has a sibling bibisect-4.0.tar.lzma.zsync. Am I > > supposed to use this for something? > > If you install zsync (with `apt-get install zsync`), you can do: > > zsync > http://people.canonical.com/~j-lallement/libreoffice/binrepo/bibisect-4.0.tar.lzma.zsync > > which should do incremental updates. > > > (*) binrepo/ lacks program soffice, and in particular it lacks > > opt/program/soffice. How am I supposed to run the program? > > (There does exist opt/program/soffice.bin, but not ooenv which I > > need to `source` first.) > > Hmmm, with my copy doing a: > > git checkout master && git reset --hard HEAD > > gives me a build of 5a8f5914c2077fe330d713a5d3a2be3b3f6a7e9a from 2013-05-07 > and the about box says so too. > Checking out the oldest version with: > > git checkout 3e7462bd65e692bf0592d5b080b7716341b62a47 && git reset --hard > HEAD > > gives me a build of 1eddfce9894fd05315173744f495619189093dc7 from 2013-02-05 > and the about box says so too. > > > (*) `git log` shows 74 commits, the latest from February 2013. I > > expected to see later commits. > > Strange: > > git log --pretty=oneline master|wc -l > 263 > > looks fine here. > > Best, > > Bjoern _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/