2009/8/31 Marius Vollmer <marius.voll...@nokia.com>: > ext Ed Bartosh <bart...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> [To upload a multi-package build request] It might be enough to just >>> allow more than one paragraph in the .changes files, and make the >>> guarantees that packages are build in order of their >>> build-dependencies and the build aborts as soon as one package fails. >>> (If I understand right what people are looking for.) >> >> Adding new paragraph would require to make a tool or change existing >> tools, right? > > Yes, of course. I think ideally dput should be changed to understand > the new .changes format. A entry in .dput.cf could say for each remote > whether it is supported or not (the default being "no"), so that people > don't upload multi-package requests to queues that don't support it. > > Maybe it is a good idea to add a new 'header' paragraph at the beginning > of multi-package .changes file so that queues that don't support it fail > very visibly and don't just ignore the second and later paragraphs. > I see this way as much more complicated than way I proposed in this thread. Please, read this message and comment if you don't mind: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2009-August/020315.html
It would also require to modify dput just a bit, but no changes to .changes format are required. -- BR, Ed _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
