Packagers: nightly builds?
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Mon Jan 26 10:50:15 CST 2009
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 19:45 +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote, On 01/25/2009 06:02 PM:
> > I would like to start making nightly build of the stable branch
> > available. This will help our testers greatly, especially during the
> > code freeze. For starters, I'd like to see Windows and Mac plus Debian
> > and Fedora for x86.
> >
> > So let me know if it's possible to automate your build.
> >
>
> For Fedora (and RHEL) we have contrib/buildrpm which works pretty well.
> Or do you have requirements it doesn't meet?
>
> It could even be extended to publish it as a yum repository so that
> machines could be configured to get the latest version available as
> automatic update. Would that be interesting?
>
> Ideally the packages should be built on machines controlled by you,
> Matt, so that users only have to trust that you build the packages from
> the official peer-reviewed repo on un-infected machines. How do you plan
> to run it? On the build bots? Or on your own virtual machines?
Well I'm not likely to ever own an OS X or Windows box, so I'll instead
have to trust someone in crew.
> ("Obviously" distributions with different Python versions will require
> different packages, and the easiest way to create them is to use
> different build machines...)
>
> A related question: The buildrpm packages are different from the
> "official" Fedoras packages by Neal. I think that's fine; Fedora wants
> to follow their policy and integerate with the rest of the system, while
> Mercurial wants to be as close to a source build as possible. Obviously
> we have a common interest in minimizing the gab. What is your opinion on
> that? Do you want builds of "real Fedora packages"?
The generic answer is: distributors should upstream their changes where
possible.
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