[cap-talk] Multi-distribution builds (was Re: Session failures)

[Steve Beattie]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:13:20AM -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 02:34 +0000, Toby Murray wrote:
> > Or if self-hosting the devel environment isn't possible yet, build a
> > second VM image that is a standard linux install that includes your
> > cross tools, already built and ready to go. This saves having to
> > maintain cross tools for multiple distributions. You just say: "we
> > support Fedora Core X, or whatever."
> 
> Toby:
> 
> We currently support several editions of Fedora, and I have considered
> at various times building packages for Ubuntu. The main impediment in
> practice is setup time, but once we get the setup working there is
> really no difficulty. Putting out a pre-installed VM doesn't really
> help, because it doesn't solve the problem of keeping the tool chain
> upgraded.
> 
> I haven't tried it, but I have the impression that the Fedora packages
> should work on CentOS without any problem -- at most they will need to
> be rebuilt.
> 
> I'ld be willing to package for Debian and Ubuntu, but I need some help
> to do that -- mostly in the form of advice:
> 
> - I haven't run these systems, so I don't really know how their
>   release numbering/naming schemes work. What releases should we add
>   to our package build farm?
> 
> - In the Debian world, there seem to be many forks. I'm not clear
>   whether we need to build separate packages for all of them or we
>   can re-use some of our packages for multiple releases.
> 
> - I don't know where to find documentation on building debian-style
>   packages. What I need is the equivalent of Maximum RPM. Can somebody
>   tell me where to find that?
> 
> Finally, I don't know what other releases we should perhaps consider.
> 
> 
> The timing of this is actually pretty good right now. We're entering a
> lull, and I was going to use some of that time to rearrange our
> infrastructure.

You might want to look at the openSUSE build service
<http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service>; in addition to supporting
automated builds on various openSUSE distributions, various Fedora,
Centos, Debian, Ubuntu, and Mandriva versions are supported. The resulting
builds are then made available in apt/yum/yast compatible repositories
for your community to use as installation sources.

There was some token support for having the build service repository use
a remote svn tree as a source; I don't know if it's now possible to have
it automatically pull from a mercurial tree.

(I'm not affiliated with openSUSE, just a happy user.)
-- 
Steve Beattie
<steve at nxnw.org>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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