On 02/17/2011 10:02 AM, Martin Pool wrote: > I'd like to do a new feature in Launchpad to help Ubuntu, which is to > allow packages to be built directly from source package branches. > This would address one of the messy parts of source package branches > at the moment, which is the need to upload the package, mark it > uploaded, and also push the branch. This will build on things that > seems to be quite popular and successful with ppa building from > recipes, and help us simplify some redundantc > > Most of what we need to do this already exists, so I'm hoping that > we'll be able to get it up quite quickly. > > I would like to start on this soon by just offering it as an adjunct > to regular dput uploads, for a limited set of packages. For packages > in that set, when someone commits to the branch, a part of Soyuz will > automatically assemble a source package and queue it for building. > This will let people try it out while still having the option to keep > using regular dput uploads. > > We have a Launchpad Enhancement Proposal (LEP) about this at > <https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/BuildFromBranchIntoPrimary>. I'd > appreciate hearing of > > * any problems you can spot in this > * any missing constraints or likely snags we ought to consider > * anyone or any packages who'd like to be first to try it
Hi Martin, Looks like a good feature. The LEP looks good. However I am concerned about 1 thing in this workflow: Some (only *some*) packages need extra build deps just to run bzr builddeb -S . Since that command will be run on buildds having all build-deps installed (please correct me if I am wrong), building and uploading a package would eat up more resources, since the buildds would need to be called twice: once for packaging the source from the branch and once per arch for building it . Not a big issue, but something that might cause build delays during mass syncs, package rebuilds, etc. Bilal Akhtar. > > Thanks! > Martin > -- Bilal Akhtar - Ubuntu Developer <bilalakh...@ubuntu.com> IRC nick: cdbs
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