Re: Daily binary builds, Eclipse 3, ... [was: Re: Mandrake 10.1 x86 RPMs for 1.1.7]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:11:36AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 00:08, Stephen Compall wrote:
> > ...are available now.
> > 
> > http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/sablevm/
> > 
> > Or that URI as a urpmi source, with hdlist.cz.
> 
> Great! Thanks!
> 
> I'd like to setup daily/nightly builds of not only sources, but also
> binary packages for different distros, so that they were available from
> 
> 	http://sablevm.org/download/snapshot/
> 
> The facilities for uploading things to these locations are available,
> so if anyone wanted to setup an autobuilder and put the daily packages
> there - it's possible and welcomed.  Just let me know.
> 
> 

Hi,

What about Gentoo?  It is source-based but no reasons not to allow users
to use most recent source :)

There are utility functions that would allow an ebuild (Gentoo's package
description file) to fetch directly the source from CVS or Subversion.
But this could put stress on the Subversion server and might not be a
good idea.

Instead, a general ebuild could be done to fetch the daily snapshot.
It would be convenient to have symlinks like this:

recent/
recent/sablevm-staging -> 2004-11-29/sablevm-staging+3110.tar.gz
and similarly for sablevm-classpath-staging.

So a constant URL always point to the most recent sources.

Then someone could install/update SableVM to most recent daily snapshot
with a simple command like:
emerge sablevm-daily

Several ebuilds have -cvs and -svn versions in the Gentoo package
database.  So I guess a sablevm-daily could be added if there are no
objections.

What do you think?

David

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