Hello, There were few user-facing improvements for https://android-build.linaro.org/ , Linaro Android Build System, from which can be downloaded daily builds of Android components (platform, toolchain):
1. HTTP downloads were enabled. It was long-standing feature request, and brings number of improvements to user experience and system scalability: a) With 100Mb+ downloads android-build.linaro.org provides, going plain HTTP instead of SSL improves download speed pretty well. b) Taking into account that downloads are server by not very powerful EC2 instance, alleviating it from SSL number-crunching improve concurrent download speed and build performance. c) Using plain HTTP gets around SSL certificate issues, the need to do extra click-thru in browser or use obscure options for wget. 2. HTTP downloads made default for the Build Frontend. Instead of documenting HTTP download link on some obscure web page, they were made default when browsing build results from https://android-build.linaro.org , e.g.: https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-panda/ (Please note that all older links will keep working. Underlying Jenkins instance also keeps using https:// links). 3. MD5SUMS are available for platform downloads. Now it's easy to verify integrity of downloads using well-known convention of MD5SUMS files. Whole download and integrity checking can be scripted as: wget -r -nd http://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-panda/65/target/product/pandaboard/ md5sum -c MD5SUMS 4. Links to easily access build logs in several formats added. Last milestone, we enabled Jenkins Log Parser plugin, which allowed to get quickly to the location of errors within 20MB build log file. However, it was available only from within Jenkins. Now, links to the most useful log browsing pages were added directly to frontend's build page, following concept that frontend page should make the most useful build information available and developers' fingertips. Now there're (under "Log" subsection on the page): * Parsed - parsed log mentioned above, providing quick jump to error locations and stats about a build * Tail - Last 500KB or so of the log, which oftentimes contain error. With one click, entire log can be browsed, with all lines still nicely wrapped. * Raw - plain-text log, as available before. This is mostly suitable for download and local view, as lines are not wrapped in most browsers when viewing online. See https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-panda/#build=59 for example. -- Best Regards, Paul Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
