Re: [gnome-love] Tinderbox (automatic daily build) for GNOME

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 3/27/06, Julien Gilli <julien gilli wengo fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On 3/27/06, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> > On 3/27/06, Julien Gilli <julien gilli wengo fr> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/27/06, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com > wrote:
> > > > When I looked at buildbot last year it seemed like setting it up to
> > > > build multiple, consecutive, interdependent tarballs (i.e., gnome)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Could you please give us further details about what was the technical
> > > problem by the time you tried?
> >
> > Any GNOME tinderbox must take at minimum an ordered list of CVS roots,
> > ideally drawn from jhbuild (since that is basically the canonical list
> > of modules), and be able to build that list.I could find no support
> > for a *list* of roots in buildbot, just a one-at-a-time type support.
> > [It did seem like I could code it up myself, but it seemed
> > non-trivial, and I had other things to do.]
> >
> > That is at a minimum. Ideally it should also be able to:
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>
> [..snip..]
>
> Ok, i'll try to review all the needed features you listed in your e-mail and
> report what i find to the list.
> Thank you very much for your insightful comments!

Thanks for taking the time to look into it. I had the motivation but
not the time or the skill; hopefully the things I learned will be of
use to someone :)

Luis