Re: Wishlist request - module build order

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 9/9/05, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> On 9/9/05, Tomas Ögren <stric acc umu se> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have a little feature request for the release notes (or somewhere
> > linked to).. Having a module build order list like the 2.8 release
> > notes (which was slightly out of order, but mostly correct)..
> > Preferrably with an URL to external dependencies (at least where they
> > are/were available at release time, had some trouble finding the correct
> > xrender tree for instance)..
> 
> This information is embedded into the jhbuild modulesets put up at
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.12.0/.  You can extract
> the information by downloading those files and taking a look (they are
> simple xml files).    I understand that it might be a little more
> painful to get the build order out by just looking at the files, by
> you can use jhbuild to help you, like so:
> 
> 1. Download jhbuild # Note: just hit enter when asked for the password
>  $ mkdir -p ~/cvs/gnome2
>  $ cd ~/cvs/gnome2
>  $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome login
>  Logging in to :pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome
>  CVS password:
>  $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome checkout jhbuild
> 2. Install it
>  $ cd jhbuild
>  $ make install
>  $ cp -a sample.jhbuildrc ~/.jhbuildrc
> 3. Download gnome-2.12.0 modulesets
>  $ cd ~/cvs/gnome2/modulesets/
>  $ wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=5 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.12.0
> 4. Create your ~/.jhbuildrc
>  $ cp -a sample-tarball.jhbuildrc ~/.jhbuildrc
> 5. Get your list (you can also add the '-r' flag to get version numbers)
>  $ jhbuild list
> 6. (Optional) Have the building from tarballs be automated for you
>  $ jhbuild build
> 
> I should probably put those steps up somewhere.  Anyway, I don't have
> the time to extract all the URLs manually and put everything in a
> pretty page but if you'd like to, one of us (e.g. Jeff, Murray, or
> Luis--those who have worked on the website and release notes) may be
> able to stick up a link somewhere.

It seems like it would be nice to put the moduleset and a
human-readable build-order in the actual tarball dir- no one is going
to find it easily in the releng dir. It should be a pretty quick hack
for someone to jhbuild/jhbuild/commands/base.py to add -url to
'jhbuild list'.

Luis