Re: Deployment status update (almost done :)

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 03:36:22PM +0000, John Carr wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral igalia com> wrote:
> >
> > El jue, 11-12-2008 a las 12:39 +0100, Frederic Peters escribió:
> >> I answered:
> >>
> >> > > Only thing pending would be to hook other slaves to this master and
> >> > > check there are no problems. If this works fine, then I think everything
> >> > > would be ready to redirect build.gnome.org here.
> >> >
> >> > Other thing is hooking it up to svn-commits-list@ to get change
> >> > notifications.
> >> >
> >> > It needs to be subscribed to svn-commits-list@ and receive the mails
> >> > in a Maildir box, currently I have this in a .procmailrc:
> >>
> >> Iago, did you try to hook it ?  It is really nice, for triggered builds,
> >> but also as the "changes" column will have culprits^Wcommiters.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, it is a nice feature. I was wondering what's the right procedure to
> > setup this in fixed.gnome.org. I do not know what's the mail setup in
> > that machine and I guess we might need Olav's hand somewhere...
> >
> > As far as I can see the idea would be:
> >
> > 1.- have some mailbox (for example one in gmail) subscribed to the svn
> > commits mailing list.
> > 2.- Configure a smtp service in fixed.gnome.org to fetch the email from
> > that mailbox or configure fetchmail to do that.
> > 3.- Add the .procmailrc rule for user buildmaster.
> > 4.- Configure .jhbuildrc for user buildmaster.
> >
> > I think that we could run fetchmail in the buildmaster's cron, and that
> > should be enough to get this done without needing Olav to do any root
> > privileged tasks.
> >
> > Olav, what do you think?
> >
> > Iago
> 
> This makes me sad :( The main reason I ported the email parser was
> because i wanted svn.gnome.org to ping us when there was something to
> do, instead of polling. fetchmail is only marginally better than
> polling :-\ Has anyone tried to e-mail buildmaster fixed gnome org?
> Perhaps it will create a Maildir in /home/buildmaster? (Thats what
> happens for the $dvcs-mirror.gnome.org stuff...)

Likely won't work from an external address. Most machine have been
configured to only accept stuff from mail.gnome.org.

However, if you subscribe that email address to svn-commits-list, then
it should work. Also prefer that.

-- 
Regards,
Olav