Ubuntu daily builds PPA

[Stefan Tauner]

Hi,

i have setup a flashrom poject at http://launchpad.net/flashrom which
auto-imports the svn every 6 hours and a package archive at
http://launchpad.net/~flashrom-developers/+archive/flashrom-daily
where new binaries are generated once a day whenever the svn has
changed.

currently there is a bug in launchpad itself that makes it impossible
to use version 0.4 recipes (recipes are used to configure the
autobuilders). this is the reason the package names are a bit awkward
(e.g. 0.9.5.1+r1508-1-20120303 for svn r1512). it is basically named by
{debversion}-{date}. it is the best i could come up with, that indicates
the included source in at least some way (date), will upgrade to newer
ubuntu versions when they become available and actually build in
current launchpad.

another problem is that the autobuilt binaries will output this:
flashrom v0.9.5.1-runknown on Linux 2.6.35-32-generic (x86_64), built
with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
i.e. no svn revision. the only way to work around this would be a
second svn tree with an already (auto-)exported version of flashrom...
if we could manage to set that up, we could probably build our own
package too without launchpad :)

maybe it is useful anyway for someone...

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Stefan,

Am 04.03.2012 20:59 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> i have setup a flashrom poject at http://launchpad.net/flashrom which
> auto-imports the svn every 6 hours and a package archive at
> http://launchpad.net/~flashrom-developers/+archive/flashrom-daily
> where new binaries are generated once a day whenever the svn has
> changed.

Thanks, that's very useful.
> currently there is a bug in launchpad itself that makes it impossible
> to use version 0.4 recipes (recipes are used to configure the
> autobuilders). this is the reason the package names are a bit awkward
> (e.g. 0.9.5.1+r1508-1-20120303 for svn r1512). it is basically named by
> {debversion}-{date}. it is the best i could come up with, that indicates
> the included source in at least some way (date), will upgrade to newer
> ubuntu versions when they become available and actually build in
> current launchpad.
>
> another problem is that the autobuilt binaries will output this:
> flashrom v0.9.5.1-runknown on Linux 2.6.35-32-generic (x86_64), built
> with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
> i.e. no svn revision. the only way to work around this would be a
> second svn tree with an already (auto-)exported version of flashrom...
> if we could manage to set that up, we could probably build our own
> package too without launchpad :)

The chromium branch of flashrom has a script which can extract the svn
version from git, in case that would help here. I think David even
submitted it.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:41:17 +0100
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  wrote:
> Am 04.03.2012 20:59 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> > another problem is that the autobuilt binaries will output this:
> > flashrom v0.9.5.1-runknown on Linux 2.6.35-32-generic (x86_64), built
> > with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
> > i.e. no svn revision. the only way to work around this would be a
> > second svn tree with an already (auto-)exported version of flashrom...
> > if we could manage to set that up, we could probably build our own
> > package too without launchpad :)
>
> The chromium branch of flashrom has a script which can extract the svn
> version from git, in case that would help here. I think David even
> submitted it.

well the problem is not git-related (although similar to that, because
the repo launchpad syncs our svn into is not svn (but bazaar)). i can
not run arbitrary commands in the recipes (possible in general, but not
on launchpad due to security concerns afaik). currently i am extracting
the debian directory from the ubuntu package to create the debian
directory in the autobuilt ubuntu packages... maybe one could hack
something into a custom made debian directory.. a quilt patch or so
that extracts the svn revision. i know that the svn revision is not
completely lost in bazaar because 0.4 recipes can use them for package
names... OTOH i think it is good enough for now as it is. if someone
wants to play around with launchpad just apply for a
"flashrom-developers" membership...

[Svetoslav Trochev]

Hi,

Thank you Stefan.

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Stefan Tauner
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have setup a flashrom poject at http://launchpad.net/flashrom which
> auto-imports the svn every 6 hours and a package archive at
> http://launchpad.net/~flashrom-developers/+archive/flashrom-daily
> where new binaries are generated once a day whenever the svn has
> changed.

I found about daily PPA about couple days ago here:
http://flashrom.org/Downloads. And used it to collect data from
several boards. Is there plan to update the wiki page with info about
the new PPA?
> currently there is a bug in launchpad itself that makes it impossible
> to use version 0.4 recipes (recipes are used to configure the
> autobuilders). this is the reason the package names are a bit awkward
> (e.g. 0.9.5.1+r1508-1-20120303 for svn r1512). it is basically named by
> {debversion}-{date}. it is the best i could come up with, that indicates
> the included source in at least some way (date), will upgrade to newer
> ubuntu versions when they become available and actually build in
> current launchpad.
>
> another problem is that the autobuilt binaries will output this:
> flashrom v0.9.5.1-runknown on Linux 2.6.35-32-generic (x86_64), built
> with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
> i.e. no svn revision. the only way to work around this would be a
> second svn tree with an already (auto-)exported version of flashrom...
> if we could manage to set that up, we could probably build our own
> package too without launchpad :)
>
> maybe it is useful anyway for someone...
>
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