[csw-maintainers] Buildfarm setup - documentation

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 05.10.2013 um 12:44 schrieb Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:32:36PM +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Hi Maciej,
>> 
>> Am 05.10.2013 um 11:37 schrieb Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
>>> We either should package them well or not package them at all. Packaging
>>> them well requires additional time and effort, which we simply don't
>>> have. Is running "svn up" really that hard?
>> 
>> 
>> It may be in fact a good idea at some point to really release it as package
> 
> I'm not against it, but benefits don't outweigh the costs in my opinion.
> Of course, if anyone cares enough, feel free to put in the work to
> package it, which involves:
> 
> - refactoring the code so it can be packaged at all (requires writing
>  a setup.py and modifying the code itself)
> - writing the build recipe
> - testing the package
> - writing up the release procedure
> - later on, potentially supporting multiple versions of the code
> - either making sure that it can work from both sources and the package,
>  or modifying GAR so that we're only using it from the installed
>  package in the buildfarm
> - making sure that it's possible to work on a development version so
>  that we can continue improving the code
> 
> It's too much work an too little gain.

I see. I was more thinking of taking the files and putting them in a package :-)
This was probably too simply thought...

>> to allow easy rebuilding.
> 
> Not sure if I understand. Do you mean, easy rebuilding of which code?


Ah, forget it. I am confused this morning. I thought of allowing people to package
up binary stuff we aren't allowed to distribute like jdk or the oracle client,
but that requires a gar package, not a pkgdb package.

Sorry for the noise.


Best regards

  -- Dago

-- 
"You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something,
and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896

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