Re: build.gnome.org

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

If you use the last point release moduleset[0] from tarballs I find
the experience faster and less error prone.

Then I configure the module I want to hack on to build from master and
this usually works, in some weird cases, master requires master from
another dependency, but this is very rare and addressable case.

[0] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/releng/3.7.4/

2013/2/7 Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>:
> I'm not sure how I missed this thread..
>
> Regarding maintaining jhbuild  up to gtk+ - I would actually like to see
> this up to at gnome-shell.  We have a number of people who I have convinced
> to help volunteer to resolve bugs for GNOME 3.7, but are very frustrated
> with getting jhbuild to build for them.
>
> We really should make it a goal to get an SDK for our volunteers to help fix
> issues.
>
> We are considering doing a jhbuild hackfest once a month for volunteers to
> learn and understand how to build under jhbuild and grow enough builders to
> make it self sustaining.
>
> But getting a certain set of modules always in buildable state is a great
> goal and I hope we can do this.
>
> sri
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement
> <jean-baptiste lallement canonical com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/16/2013 07:39 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Colin,
>>>
>> Hi Martin, Colin,
>>
>>
>>> Colin Walters [2013-01-15 15:34 -0500]:
>>>>
>>>> >On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:07 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> > >We have experimented with that a bit, by building
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >   https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Raring/view/JHBuild%20Gnome/
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> >Interesting!  Looks quite useful.  Are you doing anything with
>>>> >respect to the "jhbuild sysdeps --install" infrastructure or is
>>>> >the system package set maintained manually?
>>>
>>> Right now in our Juju charm it's a manual list:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jibel/charms/quantal/jhbuild/trunk/view/head:/files/jhbuild.config/gnome-core.sysdeps
>>>
>>> I'm not quite sure why; Jean-Baptiste, did jhbuild sysdeps not work
>>> well enough in principle?
>>>
>> In Quantal, there was missing dependencies, so I went the straightest way
>> and installed them directly. Now that I have a better understanding how
>> jhbuild works that's something I want to reconsider for Raring and avoid
>> maintaining them in 2 different places.
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Baptiste
>> IRC: jibel
>>
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Alberto Ruiz