[arch-dev-public] Scripting large rebuilds

[Allan McRae]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Am Montag, 23. Februar 2009 22:26:36 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Or something to that effect, that would not only build all packages in
>>>>>> a chroot, but auto-bump the pkgrels and dump the correct results to
>>>>>> your svn dir, for a later run of testingpkg...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Would be ncie to have some helper scripts. I use some dumb scripts to
>>>>> manage
>>>>> the kde rebuilds: http://git.archlinux.de/build-scripts/tree/kde
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe some of those can be extended to be more genereal. Espeically this
>>>>> which
>>>>> sets pkgver, pkgrel and updates the md5sums:
>>>>> http://git.archlinux.de/build-
>>>>> scripts/tree/kde/update-pkgbuilds (the awk scripts is stolen from some
>>>>> post of
>>>>> the forums ;-))
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> And I just noticed the undocumented -i flag to makechrootpkg, which
>>>> installs a package without dirtying the chroot - this just became way
>>>> easier :)
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Well....  it doesn't dirty the chroot exactly, but you do end up with
>>> everything you built being installed so could get unwanted deps further down
>>> the rebuild list unless you are careful.  I have been meaning to adjust that
>>> to put the package in a local repo in the chroot so rebuilt packages could
>>> be installed as necessary (much like in the chroot building wiki page) but
>>> have not had time.
>>>       
>> Added a new section to the wiki - these changes are in git right now,
>> not in the current devtools release:
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot#Alternate_Rebuild_Handling
>>     
>
> The -u and -I flag are in git. -i exists now, but I wanted makepkg -i
> to be usable, so I renamed that one
>   

It took me a while to figure out why you said the old method dirtied the 
chroot.  IThe way I thought about this is that the packages I rebuilt 
and updated in the chroot are soon going to be the official Arch ones so 
it will self clean eventually.  Anyway, making the chroot is so easy 
that I just make a new one to deal with major rebuilds.

Allan