[aur-general] TU Application -Thomas Hatch

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Christopher Rogers
> > <slaxemulator at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > I was working on something that is like quarters. I called it absbb (or
> > ABS
> > > Build Bot). I was trying to make a build like
> > > slitaz<http://www.slitaz.org/>has for there distro but for arch. I
> > > used makerepo to help with making the
> > > packages once in chroot. I have not looked at it in a few months since
> i
> > > was
> > > busy trying to make slitaz better and updated.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/godane/devtools-pkgbuild/tree/archbb
> > >
> > > Also there is archbb script that was just my attempt to  combined all
> of
> > > devtools into one big script. That didn't get any auto build bot
> feature
> > > into it.
> > >
> > > I hope this helps. Also +1 for TU.
> > >
> > > PS I started releasing my livecd again at http://godane.wordpress.com.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Well, good ideas are thought of twice :)
> >
> > I am making quarters in python, also I wanted to make it so the the
> builds
> > could be distributed, it would be difficult and impractical to have a
> > continuous build system rebuilding all packages over and over again on
> just
> > one box.
> >
> > I have just been trying to figure out how to make it simple enough for
> > arch,
> > so no databases, communication systems are all built in so no setting up
> > crazy deps etc.
> >
> > But I will look at your absbb, I will most likely be able to garner some
> > ideas!
> >
> > Thanks for the vote!
> >
>
> WTF is everyone working on this? Daniel Mills admins on my server and I
> know
> he's been working on a continuous build system for parts of the AUR. You
> all
> should get together for lunch or something. --Kaiting.
>
> --
> Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
>

Actually that would be a good idea, I think that there is probably some
divergence on ideas for what a continuous build service for arch would be.

Would you mind asking him if he would be interested in collaborating on a
project for this?