[arch-dev-public] Scripting large rebuilds

[Aaron Griffin]

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