[csw-maintainers] GAR Platform builds now open for testing

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi folks,

Am 05.10.2009 um 16:08 schrieb Dagobert Michelsen:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have been able to finish up the pbuilds feature in GAR. The
> official naming is "GAR Platforms".
>
> The important features are:
>
> - Allows building of Sparc/x86 at the same time
>  (Just issue "gmake package" on build8s / build8x)
>
> - Allows fully unattended builds for both Sparc and X86 suitable
>  for buildbot use
>  (Use "gmake platforms")
>
> - For the brave: build all ISAs for a package in parallel and
>  watch the build with multitail.
>  Watch out: Ctrl-C doesn't work too good yet during build
>  (Activate this with "PARALLELMODULATIONS = 1" in your .garrc)
>
>
> It lives currently in mgar/gar/v2-pbuild, just link it in to
> your project for testing. I have used it for some packages now
> and it looks good to me, but I don't use all features of GAR ;-)
> So feedback is especially welcome here!
>
> After some positive feedback I would like to make this version
> the default for GAR. It will be the basis for the enhanced
> release process (tagging of build recipes to tags/ triggering
> automated builds which will be automatically installed on
> new "experimental" hosts. More on that later.)

Of course there is also documentation :-)

   http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/wiki/Platforms


Best regards

   -- Dago