[arch-dev-public] Scripting large rebuilds

[Aaron Griffin]

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