Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Access to development machine for contributors

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon Aug 19 05:13:04 2013 Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> Op Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:10:08 +1000
> schreef Karl Goetz <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > We should be able to tweak our rebuildd setup [1] with a source_cmd
> > 
> > I am pleased and somewhat surprised it is still running :-) 
> 
> Yep, though your head-scratchy comments in the configuration still apply
> if I recall correctly. E.g. I still manually call the supposedly hourly
> cron job that scans for source packages. I never bothered to check why
> it doesn't run automaticaly, because some other manual intervention is
> needed anyway and I don't like waiting. :)

hehe :)

> > > and post_build_cmd that would also scan home directories, so that
> > > developers could upload source packages to the build queue. But you
> > 
> > I thought it already did that by pulling packages from home
> > directories, or am I getting MTT wires crossed?
> 
> That was the metad setup that scanned userpools.

Ah, of course.

> > We used to have regular issues with then 'going away' for weeks at a
> > time - no idea what the current state of play is of course.
> 
> Ah, not so reliable then.

Not at the time, someone should make an enquiry to see how things are now if 
its still something you want to try and hook in to.
Thanks,
kk