[flashrom] Ubuntu daily builds PPA

[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

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