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diff --git a/NEWS-buildd b/NEWS-buildd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..79ca393 --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS-buildd @@ -0,0 +1,1415 @@ +2004-09-05 Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> + + * buildd-mail: get filelist from changes file first when processing + ACCEPTED/INSTALLED mail. Limit filename pattern to valid filename + characters if the changes file doesn't exist. Solves possible + remote execution vulnerability (non-existant in default setup). + +2003-11-05 Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> + + * sbuild: display toolchain package versions + * sbuild: get build-essential information from the chroot, not + the root. + * sbuild: new --use-snapshot option that installs the gcc-snapshot + package as a build-depends, and sets the environment variables needed + to use it. + * buildd-mail: attempt to move installed packages to the apt cache dir + rather than deleting them. This saves bandwidth, as they will not + need to be downloaded again if they are build-depends, but uses a lot + of diskspace. + * wanna-build: add --clean-db option to free unused space in the dbm + file + * sbuild: set the state of installed build-dependencies to purge after + installation, so that in case of a crash, dpkg -P --pending should + remove all packages that no longer need to be there. + * sbuild: add $conf::build_env_cmnd to setup the build environment + for sparc32 building on sparc64 (and other things?) + * sbuild: add --binNMU=# parameter for use with --make-binNMU + for the case where more than one binNMU is needed between + upstream releases. defaults to 1. + * sbuild: remove unused --store-built-packages + * buildd: don't call sbuild with --store-built-packages + * sourcedeps-makerev: disable for now, needs a rewrite for apt + * update-sourcedeps: comment call to sourcedeps-makerev for now + * buildd-mail: check for a Distribution: line in signed changes files, + and at least one file. + * buildd: call apt-get autoclean after an apt-get update that updates + the apt package cache. + * buildd-uploader: don't upload what's in the current directory if we + can't chdir to the upload dir. + * buildd: fork and call setsid so we don't have a controlling terminal. + * abort-current-build: use /bin/kill instead of shell builtin + * add EXIT-DAEMON-PLEASE flagfile. buildd checks it once per loop + and will exit if found, taking the file with it. sbuild checks it + after finishing each build, and will exit when finished a job. + * Patch from Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org> to sort standard and higher + priorities higher, and add it to the front of the default order + characters (the new character is S). This has the effect of making + standard and higher uncompiled sort higher than all optional and + extra, which is ideal for Debian. + +2001-01-11 Roman Hodek <roman@caldera.de> + + * FetchFile.pm: Various fixes for package pools (tnx to Dan for + patches). + + * sbuild.conf.local: New variable %dist_aliases can be used to + translate distribution names (entries under dists/ on a mirror). + Currently needed for strange unstable -> sid symlink, which IMHO + should point to woody instead. + +2000-10-19 Roman Hodek <roman@caldera.de> + + * sbuild: By Dan: Make sure that /etc/ld.so.conf is readable + before building. + + * sbuild: Introduced local source dependency overrides with + %conf::srcdep_over defined in some config file. You can replace + deps on arbitrary packages with something else, e.g. + $srcdep_over{'libfoo1-dev'} = [qw(libfoo2 >= 2.0)]; + + * buildd-mail: Added preliminary PGP/MIME support by Dan. + +2000-06-27 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: There are two new section types for special + dependencies. The first is 'prepre', which contains a shell script + like 'pre', but the script is run *before* dependencies are + installed ('pre' is run afterwards). + The second new section is 'unpack'. You can list a number of + source package names there. sbuild will fetch the .dsc files and + unpack the source trees in the build dir. After the build, those + trees will be removed again. This can replace the dpkg-source + calls that were used in pre scripts. Their problem were that they + needed access to a local mirror, which can't be guaranteed now + with chroot environments. + +2000-06-20 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: For chrooted builds, call apt-get with a bunch of + options to relocate all relevant files instead of chrooting apt + itself. This makes it unnecessary to have the Debian archive to be + available from inside the chroot environment. Also dpkg and + apt-cache calls are chrooted with options now. + + * buildd-addpkg: Also here apt-get is called with options instead + of chrooting it. + +2000-06-19 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-addpkg: New option --chroot=DIR (can be given multiple + times). Causes apt-get update to be run chrooted for that dirs, + too. + + * sbuild: If build was chrooted and produced source-deps, call + buildd-addpkg with --chroot options for all dists greater or + equal to the current one to get apt caches correctly updated. + + * sbuild, sbuild.conf: New config var + @ignore_watches_no_build_deps. Watch packages listed there aren't + reported if the package has no Build-Depends. This is for things + like debhelper and debstd which are considered essential with + the central source deps but not with Build-Depends. + +2000-06-13 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Also execute shell scripts of special dependencies in + chroot environment. + +2000-06-09 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * rbuilder: Has been modified to use chroot environments. So you + finally can build stable packages on kullervo now without shared + library version problems! + It also uses wanna-build again, but doesn't give back packages + anymore so that the stable build daemon won't take them. + +2000-06-08 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Implemented building in chroot environments. See + README.chroot-building for details. + + * buildd-setup-chroot: New script for setting up a chroot + environment for sbuild. See README.chroot-building for details. + + * README.chroot-building: New documentation for the above. + +2000-06-06 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: New option --source (-s): Also build source package, + i.e. don't call dpkg-buildpackage with -b or -B. Also + automatically switches on --purge=never. + +2000-05-30 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * do-merge-{packages,quinn}: Rewritten in Perl and moved all + configuration to /etc/wanna-build.conf.local. It was really a mess + that those two scripts still had to be edited by hand... Also, + they support local mirrors and quinn-diff files now. + + * buildd-addpkg: Local packages are now installed separated by + distributions to ~/AddPkg/DIST. With this, you can exclude e.g. + unstable packages from being installed on a frozen system by + excluding that directory from /etc/apt/sources.list. buildd-addpkg + has a new --dist option that defaults to unstable. --clean mode + always operates on all distributions. + + * sbuild: Now calls buildd-addpkg with --dist option. Also does + automatically install freshly built packages only if + $conf::system_level is a "greater" or equal distribution that the + distro the pkg was built for. For example, if the system level is + "frozen", packages built for unstable won't be installed + automatically. + +2000-05-16 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Do a chmod -R go+rX on the build tree before building, + so that files are readable. Some .orig.tar.gz's contain rather + restrictive permissions that are simply inconvenient. + +2000-03-03 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: The deleting of Arch: all packages was a really Bad + Idea (TM)... It deleted all entries where *at least* one binary + packages was Arch: all, and that really wasn't what I meant... + Reverted this. + + The correct solution: There's a --merge-source now that reads the + Sources.gz file (uncompressed) for a distribution and looks at + Arch: all packages. If such a package also exists in the database + with a less or equal version, the entry is deleted. + +2000-03-02 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: If a package with Architecture: all appears in the + database, it probably just has changed to this arch. Just delete + it, it's not needed anymore. + + * wanna-build: If a package disappears from quinn-diff in states + Building or Upload, delete is as well as it would have been + Needs-Build, Failed, or Dep-Wait. + + * buildd-mail: Fixed a bug that caused check_building_any_dist to + fail. As a consequence, a package still could be deleted if it + became outdated and still was building in another dist. + +2000-03-01 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: Introduced new concept of failed categories. See + README.failcat for more details. (New option --category == -c) + + * README.failcat: new file. + + * wanna-build: New options --min-age=DAYS (-a DAYS) and + --max-age=DAYS to restrict listed package depending on the time of + last state change. + + * buildd-reply.el:There are two new functions: + buildd-bug-change-category changes the failed category of a failed + package; you use it from a mail buffer with a reply to the bug + report (if the maintainer hasn't changed the subject...); you are + prompted for a new category, which can be TAB-expanded. + buildd-bug-comment adds next text to the fail message of a + package; used the same way as buildd-bug-change-category above, + but you can insert arbitrary text; with [CAT] you can also + set/change the category. + + I've also changed keybindings: C-c C-a (formerly + buildd-bug-ack-append) is now a prefix for 3 bindings that append + something to fail messages: + C-c C-a C-n -> buildd-bug-ack-append (i.e., append a bug number) + C-c C-a C-a -> buildd-bug-comment (append arbitrary text) + C-c C-a C-c -> buildd-bug-change-category + + * buildd: In get_changelog, remove an epoch if using the package + name as part of a file name. + + * sbuild: Also match error message "dpkg: status database area is + locked" from apt and retry call later. + +2000-02-23 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: Added a warning for packages that have a newer + version in the database than in quinn-diff, and the state is one + of Installed, Install-Wait, Reupload-Wait, or Not-For-Us. In those + cases, the newer version is questionable... it could be caused by + a lame mirror, or it is an error in the db. During --merge-quinn, + wanna-build now checks for such cases and if it detects some, it + sends a mail about them to the admin. + +2000-02-16 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Fix support for !needs-no-XXX deps (should now work as + advertised :-) + + * sbuild: A package log contains now the version number of sbuild. + +2000-02-15 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Improved warnings about missing central source + dependencies: The list of package build dependencies is now not + only dependency-expanded, but also virtual packages among them are + expanded to an alternative of all providing packages. That way, a + concrete package in the central deps shouldn't any longer be + reported as missing if the build deps contain a corresponding + virtual package. (E.g.: build dep is libncurses-dev, central deps + contain libncurses5-dev.) + +2000-02-11 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Do not show warnings that !this-package-does-not-exist + or !needs-no-XXX type dependencies are missing in the package + build dependencies. + + * sbuild: Do not activate watches for dependencies of build deps + and not for packages where a !needs-no-XXX dep exists. + +2000-02-04 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: --no-build now also propagates the new state to + other distributions, which makes it consistent to the other + actions. + + * wanna-build: new options --no-propagation (-N) and + --no-down-propagation (-D) which suppress state propagation at all + or to ``smaller'' distributions, resp. The former is sometimes + useful for manually fixing things (e.g. a package fails only in + stable due to the build environment, but not in unstable). + --no-down-propagation is useful for the build daemon to avoid + unwanted propagations. + + * buildd, buildd-mail, buildd-uploader, sbuild: Use + --no-down-propagation in wanna-build calls. + +2000-01-28 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Finally let it also accept abbrevs for distributions (s, + f, and u). + + * buildd-reupload: Now finally can completely reconstruct a + .changes from the source package and the existing binary packages + that should be re-uploaded for different distributions. This + finally makes the script usable :-) + + * buildd-reupload added to install and update-buildd scripts. + + * sbuild: New option --make-binNMU='message'. This will create a + new changelog entry for a binary-only NMU. The message in the + option will be used as description in the changelog (it may + contain newlines and will be formatted properly). Please note that + the version number in the package argument(s) still must be the + existing, non-NMU versions so that sources can be downloaded. The + version in the logfile etc. will be modified automatically. An + bin-NMU entry won't be created twice in the same build tree. + +2000-01-27 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd: Remove $DISPLAY from the environment. The variable + doesn't make sense when running in the background. + +2000-01-20 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-mail: Allow "give-back" as answer to a Should-I-Build + question. + +2000-01-18 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-mail: "not-for-us" or "no-build" are now valid answers to + a Should-I-Build question. This is handy if a package is now arch + specific or the like. + + * buildd-mail: Fix outdated handling (packages are only outdated + in a distrib if they were reported to be so...) + + * buildd-mail: If a package is reported as being outdated now, + skip the build and/or delete the files only if we're not still + building it in any other distribution. + +2000-01-13 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Pass the --force-confold option to dpkg only if the + version is before 1.4.1.18. Those old versions don't understand + the option and fail. Newer versions need it, because they fail if + they ask the conffile question and stdin is /dev/zero. + +1999-12-17 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: even more improved printout of missing central + dependencies check. First sbuild reads the list of build-essential + packages (as according to policy, from the build-essential + package) and expands its dependencies. Those packages are filtered + out and separately. They should never be mentioned in + Build-Depends. Next, dependencies of the Build-Depends are + expanded and those missing deps are also printed separately. It + depends on the circumstances if those should be reported. This all + together should make bug reports based on the sbuild warnings more + reliable. + +1999-12-08 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: allow multi-line build dependencies when reading a .dsc. + Those are actually forbidden is you look into packaging manual + closely, but too many packages use them... + + * sbuild: Fix a bug in reading packages status: If a name was both + provided and a real pkg name (probably an old one), the + "not-installed" on the real pkg could set the installed status to 0. + + * sbuild: Special dependencies (those with a '*') are always + implicitly overrides, i.e. they're added to package-supplied build + dependencies. + +1999-12-03 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: When using source deps from a .dsc, compare them with + the central deps and report any missing things. It seems that many + packages lack some deps at the first try, and this aids reporting + bugs. + +1999-11-30 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: When a package has its own source dependencies in the + .dsc, store them in a file debian/.sbuild-build-deps in the build + tree. This is needed when the package is later built again and the + .dsc isn't available anymore. If a sbuild argument is a directory + (building from tree without .dsc), look if this file exists and if + yes, read build deps from it. + + * sbuild: Print a message to the log if package build deps are + used. It already happened sometimes that I searched for an error + in madd_sd-* or andrea, but the bad dependencies came from the + packages :-) Such a message at least reminds you where to look... + +1999-11-12 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd: There's a new config variable, $secondary_daemon_threshold, + in buildd.conf. It's intended for secondary daemons that should + start building only if the primary daemon(s) are overloaded. The + threshold gives a number of Needs-Build packages that must be + reached before the secondary starts off. + +1999-10-29 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * Fixed buildd statistics: The packages given back by sbuild + weren't recorded, so some figures were a bit corrupted (specially + processed). sbuild now appends 1 for each given-back pkg if it's + given the new option --stats-dir. buildd passes that option. + buildd-watcher knows about the new stats file and prints it in the + summary. + + * buildd-addpkg: If apt-get update fails with "E: Could not get + lock", try again a minute later. + + * sbuild: Make apt always pass --force-confold to dpkg. The + </dev/null trick doesn't work anymore with dpkg >= 1.4.1.18 (it + gives an error on the conffile question if it read EOF.) + + * sbuild: If using an already unpacked source tree, check if it's + really the version we want to build. (The requested version could + be different in the Debian revision, and you can't see that on the + directory's name.) + +1999-10-25 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * New script buildd-clean-upload: It removes all jobs (.changes + + associated files + .upload) that are installed in the archive + (must be local or NFS mounted). I needed this now, because + INSTALLED mails from maor-installer don't come through at the + moment. But it's more a quick fix that can be useful later, too, + than a real part of buildd. + +1999-10-21 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * New script buildd-addpkg that maintains a private package + archive for apt. buildd-addpkg copies a list of (reshly built) + packages to ~/AddPkg and updates the Packages file there. Older + versions of the pkg that existed in AddPkg/ are removed. Then + apt-get update is called to make the installed pkgs available for + apt. If called with --clean, buildd-addpkg checks apt knows about + the packages in AddPkg/ from somewhere else and removes those. + ~buildd/AddPkg should be in the last line of your + /etc/apt/sources.list. + + * sourcedeps-makerev: New script that builds a reverse index of + source dependencies, i.e. a list of all packages that are a + referenced as source dependency. It is called now by + update-sourcedeps after installing a new file, and the reverse + index is stored as /etc/source-dependencies-DIST.rev. It is read + by sbuild if called with --store-built-packages. + + * sbuild: New option --store-built-packages=PROG. PROG is a + program that makes built packages available for apt and is usually + buildd-addpkg. If this option is given, sbuild checks after each + build if any of the produced packages is a source dependency. If + yes, it is scheduled for installation. Also installed are packages + that already scheduled packages depend on (maybe via Provides:) + and that were also built. All those packages are passed to PROG, + which makes the available for apt. + Finally, if one of the src-dep packages is already installed and + it's not in @conf::no_auto_upgrade, apt is called to install the + new version. + + * buildd: Now calls sbuild with --store-built-packages=buildd-addpkg + if that tool exists and $conf::no_store_packages isn't set + (default). + +1999-10-06 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-mail: before actions on retry, fail, dep-ret, man, + give-back and should-I-build replies are executed, check that the + state is Building in the given version. This should avoid that old + mails (stalled in a queue somewhere) cause wrong things to be done + on outdated stuff. Little exception: If a "fail" answer appends a + bug number, the required state is Failed instead. + Also, on should-I-build replies there is a check for outdated + packages. + + * buildd-mail: There are now different error messages for the + reply mail and the log. Often the messages were too verbose for + the log. + + * buildd-mail: Logging of queue daemon messages can be turned off + by $log_queued_messages = 0 in ~/buildd.conf. + + * buildd-mail: Before moving a package to the upload dir, every + .deb is checked for correct md5 checksum. It happened in the past + that a package was built twice (due to errors) overwriting the + .debs. And if you then acknowledged the older log the md5sums didn't + match, resulting in later errors in the queue or on master. + + * buildd: Removed message "DEBUG: not taking ... because given + back recently". + +1999-09-22 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-mail: Fix a bug that caused outdated packages to be added + to REDO sometimes on "retry" mails. + +1999-09-02 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * finish-build: I've added this script I'm using for some time to + CVS now. It's used to finish builds that aborted and that were + fixed manually. It runs the binary-arch if no debian/files exists, + generates a .changes and sends a mail like sbuild would have done. + +1999-09-01 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * {wanna-build,sbuild,buildd}.conf: All config files split into + local and shared parts. The shared parts are to be modified by the + buildd author only. The local parts contains some variables of + local nature (mail addresses etc.) and also can override shared + values. To keep compability with the previous names, the local and + shared files are named as follows: + + | shared file | local file + -------------+-------------------------+---------------------------- + wanna-build | /etc/wanna-build.conf | /etc/wanna-build.conf.local + sbuild | /etc/sbuild.conf | /etc/sbuild.conf.local + buildd | /etc/buildd.conf.global | ~buildd/buildd.conf + + Except for buildd.conf, the shared file reads in the local file at + the end. For buildd.conf, it's the other way round. + On installation the shared files can be replaced without + questions, so don't make modifications there. These should go into + the local files. + + * buildd: Additionally check /etc/buildd.conf.global for changes + and re-read configuration then. + + * buildd-mail, buildd-watcher: Add a special check for error + mails: If more than 5 mails from a mailer daemon are received + within less than $conf::error_mail_window (default 8 hours), + they're not forwarded anymore to avoid possible mail loops. (This + happens if the error is about the admin address itself.) The dates + of error mails are stored in the new file ~buildd/mail-errormails. + buildd-watcher regularily purges old entries from this file and + removes it if it becomes empty. + +1999-08-27 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: --auto-give-back has a new optional argument giving the + user and hostname where to call wanna-build (like $conf::sshcmd of + buildd). This is needed that sbuild can do give-backs when there's + no local wanna-build. If the argument is missing, wanna-build is + called locally. Otherwise, it's used like + + --auto-give-back=[[WBUSER@]USER@]HOST + + An ssh calls is made as USER to HOST, and wanna-build called there + with --user=WBUSER. If WBUSER is missing, it's the same as USER. + If both are missing, the local username is used for both. + + * buildd: Passes the new --auto-give-back arg to sbuild now if + $conf::sshcmd is set. Also correctly uses + --user=$conf::wanna_build_user when taking packages. + +1999-08-26 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-reply.el: Fixed several problems of alphabetical ordering + with buildd-edit-manual-source-deps (C-c C-s). New function + buildd-add-sd-map (C-c C-v) for editing sd_map files. + +1999-08-23 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: When merging a Packages file, ignore entries for + foreign architectures (including Arch: all). This is necessary for + merging the Packages from proposed-updates, and this includes + .debs for all archs. + + * do-merge-packages: Also merge Packages from proposed-updates. + + * Many changes in sbuild: + + * Support for alternatives in src-deps. This means you can have + dependencies like "foo | bar (>= 1.2)". The installation is + handled as follows: + - If at least one alternative is installed in a matching version, + nothing has to be done. + - If at least one alternative is installed, but in the wrong + version, the first such alternative is tried to upgrade. + - If no alternative is installed, the first one is installed. + - If all alternatives would need a downgrade to satisfy the + version constraint, sbuild bails out that it can't do this. + The decision which package to install or upgrade is made before + apt is called and can't be changed later (yet). This means that, + e.g., if the first alternative is not installable but the second + would be, the package fails nevertheless. I might work on this in + future... + + * Src-deps can now contain the [ARCH1 !ARCH2] architecture + restrictions that will be used soon by the Build-Depends: field in + the .dsc. The semantics are: The dependency is ignored if the + current build arch isn't mentioned in the list, or if it's + mentioned with a '!' prefix. The arch restrictions come after the + version relation (if present) and apply to single alternatives. + Example: + + foo: svgalib (>= 1.3) [i386 alpha] | svgalib-dummy [!i386 !alpha] + + * sbuild now checks the .dsc file for Build-{Depends,Conflicts}: + fields and uses those as src-deps if present. (The *-Indep variants + are also used if the --arch-all option is given.) The deps from + the .dsc override the ones from /etc/source-dependencies*, as they + are considered to be newer and/or more exact. However, there's + still a way to add dependencies to packages that come already with + src-deps: If you prefix a dep with '&' in the central src-dep + file, those deps won't be thrown away. + + * There's a new feature of abbreviations in src-deps. You can + define them by + + abbrev FOO = foo, bar, yxy + + anywhere in the source-dependencies-* file. Then FOO can be used + just like any other package name. It will be replaced by "foo, + bar, yxy" later. Abbrevs can't be used with version relations and + inside alternatives. + + * New options: --arch-all (-A) also builds Arch: all packages + (uses dpkg-buildpackage -b instead of -B); --add-depends (-a) + like -f, but doesn't override existing deps completely but adds to + them. + + * sbuild now only parses the src-deps for package which should be + compiled. This should reduce the start-up time a bit. + +1999-08-10 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: Allow section names like non-US/non-free when + parsing a quinn-diff. (The section can contain letters, digits, -, + and / now.) + + * do-merge-{packages,quinn}: New config var $section, can be more + than just main (default is "main non-US/main"). Both scripts now + import data from all sections in $section. ftp.uni-erlangen.de + provides the necessary quinn-diff data. + Both scripts now also print the names of the files downloaded and + which will be merged. + + * sbuild: Virtual packages as source dependencies didn't really + work yet... An alternative was installed ok, but the following + consistency check didn't see the provided package, because it used + dpkg --status, and that doesn't know virtual packages. + Solution: get_dpkg_status() now directly reads + /var/lib/dpkg/status (which should be a bit faster, too) and + parses the Provides: fields of installed packages. Provided + packages are considered installed for src-dep purposes. + + * sbuild: Make some more messages go to the package log (instead + of the sbuild log, where they didn't belong). Also fix the + stdout/stderr redirecting when running scripts of special deps. + + * FetchFile.pm: Redirect output of ftpget (lftp code). + + * Buildd.pm: Increase lock_interval from 5s to 15s, giving a total + try time of 30m. I've seen cases where a valid lock has been + broken because it existed too long. This shouldn't happen. + +1999-08-09 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-mail, buildd-uploader: support for non-US packages + There's a new dir upload-non-US for packages that should go to the + non-US server. buildd-mail automatically recognizes such packages + if the .deb sections contain the string "non-US" + (case-insensitive). Also packages listed in @conf::non_us_packages + are moved to this upload dir. + Acknowledged packages are moved to the appropriate upload dir + (upload/ or upload-non-US/). When removing a job from the upload + dir (either if it has been installed into the archive, or on the + upload-rem command), check if the changes file is in upload-non-US + and use this dir then. + buildd-uploader simply uploads packages from both dirs. The + dupload in upload-non-US use a --to option of + $conf::dupload_to_non_us (default "non-us"). Please make sure you + can upload there without questions for passwords etc. + + * buildd.conf: New config vars $dupload_to_non_us and + @non_us_packages. + + * sbuild.conf: Add non-US/main to @do_dists, remove non-us (seems + obsolete). + +1999-08-04 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: When taking a package, print the warning that + previous version failed also if the previous state was + Failed-Removed. + + * buildd*: Implemented the collecting of some statistical data. + All the figures are written to files in ~/stats, where some script + will pick them up. Written files are: taken, builds, uploads, + failed, dep-wait, no-build, idle-time, and build-time. + + * buildd-watcher: Implemented statistics summary, which is mailed + once per week. + + * buildd.conf: two new config vars: $statistics_period and + $statistics_mail. + +1999-08-03 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: I hope I've found out now what caused the + HASH(0x........): fields which corrupted the databases from time + to time. (It is something between unexpected Perl behaviour and a + proper bug in perl-5.005.) + +1999-07-28 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * rbuilder: Don't use wanna-build anymore at all -- it caused too + many problems (If a package was given back, the new version was + Needs-Build and the daemon grabbed it, but couldn't download the + source; often distribution lines confused users; ...) The code is + still there, but deactivated by $main::use_wb = 0. + + * rbuilder: Don't remove the build dir if upload failed or on + .changes inconsistencies. Such stuff can probably be fixed + manually and the packages doesn't need be rebuilt. + +1999-07-27 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd: New config variable $idle_sleep_time (in buildd.conf) + instead of hardwired pause of 5 minutes between list-needs-build + calls. + + * wanna-build: --info -dist=all created non-existing databases + (e.g. for frozen); fixed. + +1999-07-23 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: Avoid that MTAs add domains to From: or To: + addresses: Add the local domain to the to addr if it doesn't + contain a domain yet. Also add a explicit From: header, as the MTA + might use the plain username otherwise. + + * rbuilder: If the package can't be built or uploaded + successfully, give it back so it can be retried later. + +1999-07-21 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * FetchFile.pm: Made the FTP downloading (via the Perl-internal + Net::FTP module, not lftp) more fault-tolerant. If the received + file is smaller than expected, it is retried as long as each try + increases the file size. + + * buildd-mail-wrapper now sets the umask to 022, because some + mailers seem use 077, which makes the files in ~/upload unreadable + for others. + +1999-07-09 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * check-security-uploaded: New script; to be run from crontab of + wanna-build db admin. It downloads the Packages files from + security.debian.org and compares the packages there with the ones + that 'rbuilder' is currently building. If such packages are found + to be installed, they're set to 'Uploaded' to avoid old-build + mails. + + * rbuilder: Now maintains a file "builders" where it stores + package names + versions and the email addresses of the people who + requested to build those packages. The addresses are used for + old-build mails: They're forwarded to the responsible person + instead of being rejected because they're not PGP-signed. + +1999-06-21 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Also recognize new message "Package file ... is out of + sync" from apt-get and run apt-get update. + +1999-06-18 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * rbuilder, wanna-build-mail: Both now support also GnuPG for + signing the mails. + * wanna-build-mail: Now can also parse mails signed with MIME/PGP, + like rbuilder. + +1999-06-14 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: Now packages can also changed from Installed to + Installed if a newer version than registered in the database + appears in the Packages file. This can happen if someone uploads a + package without any wanna-build interaction. Formerly, only the + Installed-Version: was updated, but not Version:. + + * wanna-build: Don't use getlogin() anymore for determining the + user name; it returns wrong results if su has been used (returns + the user you su-ed from). + + * rbuilder: Keep the logs for all requested builds for 100 days in + a logs/ subdir. + + * rbuilder: In error replies, quote the mail that caused the + error. + + * rbuilder: If taking a package fails, report the wanna-build + messages to the user. + + * rbuilder: Fix silly syntax error ($main::wanna-build instead of + $main::wanna_build). + +1999-06-09 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Fixed some silly errors with global patches: Accept them + at all when parsing the source-dependencies file; fix the loop in + apply_patches to handle the args consistently; don't let the build + fail if a global patch didn't apply. + +1999-06-08 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: When reading quinn-diff output, accept empty + sections and priorities. (Those are generated by quinn-diff now on + packages from proposed-updates.) The empty values are replaced by + "unknown". + +1999-06-04 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: When giving back a package, don't forget the --dist + option to wanna-build. + + * sbuild: Added support for virtual packages in source + dependencies. When sbuild tries to install such a package, apt-get + will tell it which alternatives exist. One of these is substitued + for the virtual package and apt-get will be retried. Which one to + use is either determined by %conf::alternatives or more or less by + random (first one listed). + +1999-06-02 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Removed as many die's as possible. The error exit status + caused by die can let buildd retry all jobs of this sbuild run, + even if some have already been finished. + + * sbuild: Make sure that we're in the correct directory after a + build (some chdir()s in error cases were missing). Also don't use + chdir(".."), because we may have followed a symlink; better use + the absolute path of the wanted dir. + + * sbuild: If the directory where a package should be unpacked + already exists but is a symlink, then complain. + + * sbuild: With --batch write each finished job to a file + SBUILD-FINISHED. buildd can look at this file if sbuild crashed + for jobs that need not be rebuilt. + + * buildd: If sbuild exited with error status and hasn't dumped + unfinished jobs to REDO itself, look for SBUILD-FINISHED to sort + out jobs that don't need rebuilding. + + * check-old-builds: Add /usr/local/bin to $PATH if not included yet. + +1999-06-01 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-mail: Now creates the upload directory if it didn't exist + yet. And if not all files belonging to an upload could be moved + there, abort with an error. + + * Removed some more hardcoded paths to binaries in buildd and + buildd-watcher. + +1999-05-31 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: The du after the build (to get the total space required) + is now run under sudo, because under some debian/tmp-like some + dirs can not be accessible to normal users. + + * buildd.conf: Added build/{HOLD-BACK,Attic} to $no_warn_pattern. + + * In all scripts remove calls to aliases of wanna-build (the + list-needs-build, build-info etc. symlinks) and use wanna-build + itself with appropriate option instead. This removes the necessity + to have the symlinks; you may still want them for typing + convenience... + + * Removed hardcoded /usr/local paths. + + * Removed hardcoded /usr/local/var/debbuild paths from do-merge-* + scripts. They extract the database dir now from + /etc/wanna-build.conf. + +1999-05-26 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: Introduced epochs in the database (they were + ignored until now); now finally packages that have changed epoch + go to state Needs-Build automatically. You're still allowed to + omit the epoch in the usual commands (version comparison is fuzzy + here) to still be able to pass file names as arguments. However, + the input of --merge-packages and --merge-quinn must be exact can + contain epochs. + Caution #1: If the quinn-diff piped into wanna-build ignores epochs, + you need to set $ignore_epochs in /etc/wanna-build.conf. + Caution #2: When you install this wanna-build version (1.102) and + have an existing database without epochs, run --merge-packages and + --merge-quinn once with the --introduce-epochs option. + Caution #3: Epochs are also added for currently building packages. + buildd-mail might be confused by this if in the subjects of mails + the epoch is still missing. You must add the epoch manually in + this case. + Caution #4: The automatic adding of epochs fails in one case: If + someone has taken a version newer than what quinn-diff knows (e.g. + a NMU planned) and that version was meant already with the epoch. + In this case wanna-build will reset the state to Needs-Build and + send you a new-version-while-building notice. Just re-take the + package. + + * sbuild: Ignore epochs when fetching source files. + + * sbuild: If dpkg-source -x fails, remove the .tmp-nest dir if + it's left over. + + * buildd-mail: Fix extraction of error message again (for replies + to should-I-build mails): ignore empty parts between separators. + + * buildd-mail: Ignore epochs when constructing the name of a + changes file or the name of a build directory. + + * wanna-build: If you take a package you have already taken, you + don't get an error message anymore ("NOT OK; already taken by + USER") but a notice instead that you already own the package and + an ok. + +1999-05-17 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * Fixed /tmp insecurity on wanna-build --manual-edit. + +1999-05-04 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: After a build the disk space required for it is + determined (final size of build dir before purging + size of + generated .deb's) and printed in the package log. Additionally, + the figure is stored in a new database avg-build-space, analogous + to avg-build-time. However, the calculation of the "average" is + different. Since disk space isn't expected to vary as much as + times, the last figure seems more important than later ones. + Therefore, max. 4 numbers are stored, and when calculating the + average, the latest is weighted with factor 4, the next with 3 and + so on. + + * avg-pkg-build-time: Can now dump the space db, too, with option + --space (-s), or if called as avg-pkg-build-space. Output format + for space is a bit different, but adding, dumping, sorting etc. + works as usual. + +1999-05-03 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: After unpacking a source, run "chmod -R g-s" on it. Some + .orig.tar.gz files seems to be packaged with the setgid bit on, + which causes the debian dir and its subdirs (e.g. debian/tmp) to + be created setgid, too; and later dpkg-deb --build complains about + bad permissions. + +1999-04-26 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * rbuilder: Now can also parse mails signed with MIME/PGP. + +1999-04-21 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: sbuild can now check if certain binaries have been used + during a package build (to update the source dependencies). The + check just looks for access time of the binary being later than + the start of the build, so it could be fooled by parallel + activities on the machine. So better check manually... + There's a new config var %watches where one can list all the + packages and binaries therein to watch for. + +1999-03-12 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: New option --force-depends (-f) to override source + dependencies of a package, in case they're wrong. The argument + should be a line in the same format as used in + /etc/source-dependencies. + +1999-03-08 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: On --merge-packages, it can happen that multiple + versions exist for one source package (if old binary packages + from the same source haven't been removed from the archive yet). + So skip a package in Packages not always if the same (source) + packages has already been processed, but only if also the versions + match. That way, all versions will be processed. + + * wanna-build: New option --pretend-avail. The packages given on + the command line (versions required) are treated as if they're + installed, and packages waiting for them are moved from Dep-Wait + to Needs-Build (if other dependencies are available, too, of + course). + To make implementation of this easier, the Depends: list of a + package in state Dep-Wait is now shortened each time a dependency + is available. + +1999-03-07 James Troup <james@nocrew.org> + + * andrea, merger: new option --architecture (-a) to define the + architecture and override the default as set by the output of dpkg + --print-architecture. + +1999-03-05 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * FetchFile: Bigger redesign of caching: Do not cache all file + names anymore, but only directory names. Building a full cache + takes some time, specially if for a FTP site. And most of the + infos is never needed, specially if compiling only one package. + Additionally, the full cache must be cleared rather often after + "not found" results, because the mirror might have changed. This + isn't necessary if caching dir names, because they're very + unlikely to change. The new cache should be a major speedup for + single-package builds and/or if several source packages must be + fetched from a FTP site. + + * sbuild: No not remove build-progress if not writing it (no + --batch). + + * sbuild: New option --purge (-p) to define build dir purge mode + on command line. + +1999-03-02 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Now implemented source dependency locking. This allows + (securely) for multiple sbuild instances at the same time. For + each job, a lock file with needed source dependencies is written. + Before installing src deps, sbuild checks all those lock files if + any of the packages needed by other instances would be touched in + any way (removed, installed, updated). In that case, the second + instance must wait until all conflicting jobs are finished. + Special dependencies usually cause no conflict, except they are + marked with a "global { yes }" subsection, which means they + influence global system state. At most one package at a time may + be built that has such a global dependency. + + * sbuild: Source dependencies that were newly installed for a + build are now removed immediately after the build has finished, + not anymore at the end of all builds. The old behaviour might be a + bit more efficient, but is complex to handle with src-dep locks. + +1999-03-01 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * rbuilder: New script for remote building on demand. Accompanying + is a rbuilder-wrapper. + + * wanna-build: When merging Packages files, unknown (source) + packages aren't ignored anymore. The ignoring was initially done + to keep the databases smaller, but by now most packages are + included there anyway. So it is now better to have a full + database, which also makes the statistics a bit more correct. + +1999-02-24 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: New option -n (--nolog): Do not write any log files + (package log, build log), but only print to stdout. Also do not + send any mails. + + * sbuild: Now a kind of source dependency locking information is + maintained: In $conf::srcdep_lock_dir (usually + /usr/local/var/debbuild/srcdep-lock) each instance of sbuild puts + a file named after its pid and writes all needed packages into + that file. Later instances of sbuild can use this information to + check if a src-dep conflict exists. (To be implemented...) + +1999-02-23 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Now URLs (http:// and ftp://) are allowed as command + line parameters; the URL should point to a .dsc file. This feature + can be used to build packages in arbitrary locations, not only + those listed in @archive_locations. Also no searching is + necessary, since the path is given. + +1999-02-18 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Fix an old typo in some output text (chnages vs. changes) + +1999-02-17 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: --give-back can now change to state Needs-Build + from any state (not only Building) with --override. + + * wanna-build: --info and --forget (which take only package names + without version) now strip anything following a '_' to avoid + confusion. + + * sbuild: With -v don't mail the build log, because the same + information is already mailed as the package log. And the + additional stuff in the build log (e.g. removing packages) can be + see interactively. + + * buildd: New config variable @take_from_dists: buildd will only + take new packages from the distributions listed here. This can be + used to let one buildd make this distrib, the other buildd the + next and so on. If this variable isn't initialized in buildd.conf, + it's set to (stable frozen unstable), i.e. all distributions. + +1999-02-08 James Troup <james@nocrew.org> + + * andrea is now architecture and distrubtion independent through + the use of multiple new format files for source dependency + mappings and manually added source dependencies. + +1999-02-03 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: If installation of source dependencies (apt-get run) + fails, try to reinstall removed packages and to remove newly + installed packages. If apt-get failed because some package didn't + configure, that package must be removed, otherwise all following + apt-get runs will fail because they try to configure that package! + + * check-old-builds: Remove packages from reported-old-builds if + they're not in state Building anymore. + + * wanna-build: "new version of ..." mails now include + distribution. + + * wanna-build: With --info you can now also use --dist=all (or + -da). Then infos are printed for all known distribution. + + * buildd-mail: Handle outdatedness for multiple distributions: + - The outdated-packages file now also records distributions in + which the package is outdated. + - In the check for outdatedness, it can happen that it's + outdated in none, some, or all distributions. The none and all + cases are the same as before, but in the some case, a modified + .changes needs to be sent, or an action cannot be applied + automatically. + - If the reply is no changes, we have to determine separately + to which distributions the packaged is targeted. This is done + by checking for state Building of the version in question. + + * buildd-mail: Fixed get_fail_msg for new output format of + build-info. + + * buildd-mail: Before moving a package to the upload dir, check if + it's really registered for building in all target distributions. + If this is not the case, it's an indication of error. Either it + should be registered, or some distributions should be deleted. + +1999-02-01 James Troup <james@nocrew.org> + + * andrea's merger's ability to strip automatically generated + dependencies through the source-dependencies file has been fixed. + +1999-02-01 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * avg-pkg-build-time: New option -f (--dbfile) to select the + database to consult on the command line. + +1999-01-25 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: When parsing dpkg --status output, ignore the help + message appended at the end under some circumstances. This should + remove the "parse error in dpkg --status: no Package: field" error + messages. + +1999-01-19 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * check-old-builds now checks all distributions, not only unstable. + +1999-01-18 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: When opening the database, handle error EAGAIN: + Wait 2 seconds and then try again for max. 30 times. Starting with + the switch to GDBM, it often happened that after a lock was gone + the database still couldn't be opened (file locking?). + +1999-01-13 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: Added --quiet option to patch call to avoid some blurb + in the sbuild log file. + * do-merge-quinn: Mail the statistics file only if its size is + greater than 0. + * wanna-build-statistics: If wanna-build --list=all dies with + error status, print the last message from it. + +1999-01-08 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: Don't warn if a package goes Reupload-Wait -> + Installed, this is rather normal. + * wanna-build now uses GDBM databases (instead of DB hash from + glibc), because the former database driver crashed randomly on + sufficiently big databases :-( + +1998-12-23 James Troup <james@nocrew.org> + + * andrea now handles multi-line dependency information as found, + for example, with the sgml-tools package. + +1998-12-22 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * Several internal changes in wanna-build: make regexps faster by + not using $`,$&,$'; replace ugly $main::var syntax for global + variables by $var together with a use vars; made program name and + option handling more general by replacing big switches by + table-driven approach. + + * wanna-build now by default uses its own comparison function, + written in Perl. This should be a great deal faster than forking + dpkg --compare-versions all the time. But since this isn't 100% + correct (dpkg is the only instance that really knows about version + ordering), a new option --correct-compare can be used to force + calling dpkg. + +1998-12-16 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * New script wanna-build-statistics: Prints some nice statistics + about how much packages are in which state, who put them into that + state and so on. + + * do-merge-quinn now calls wanna-build-statistics after each merge + and sends the results to a mailing list. + + * wanna-build now also allows --uploaded on packages in state + Install-Wait without --override. + +1998-12-15 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * Little correction to handling of Install-Wait state in + wanna-build: If the corresponding package in another distribution + changes state to Failed, Dep-Wait, or Needs-Build (on give-back), + propagate this state change to the distrib where the Install-Wait + is. This is necessary because in those cases, no upload will + happen, and thus we could wait endless for an installation. + +1998-12-11 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * On --merge-quinn, if a state is copied from another + distribution, wanna-build must also set the Package: field, + because the entry might not have existed before. This caused + (rarely) "entry misses Package: field" errors. + +1998-12-08 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * A SBUILD-REDO-DUMPED file is now also removed by buildd if + sbuild exits with 0 status (as it does if the shutdown goes ok). + +1998-12-07 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd now also catches SIGALRM around the call to + get_changelog, which uses FetchFile. This is similar to the recent + change to sbuild. + +1998-12-04 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * There's a new config variable in buildd.conf: + @weak_no_auto_build. Packages listed there are usually not taken + and built, just as those in @no_auto_build. However, if there is + really nothing to do (in no distribution) and the daemon would go + into its idle loop otherwise, it will also take one package that + is in @weak_no_auto_build (if one is available). Only one package + is taken, because it is assumed that those packages need + relatively much time. The consideration behind all this is that + it's better to start an expensive build instead of doing nothing. + + * sbuild now also catches SIGALRM and calls its shutdown function + if receiving it. In the last time, it happened sometimes that the + Net::FTP module triggered some unhandled SIGALRMs after unexpected + FTP timeouts. This caused the whole sbuild to crash, and *all* + packages were dumped to REDO. Calling shutdown at least will dump + only the unfinished ones. + +1998-11-26 James Troup <james@nocrew.org> + + * sbuild: sbuild can now use lftp instead of the perl FTP module + to download source files; this was necessary for cookie-monster + which is on a slow shared modem connection which consitently + defeated the perl FTP module. It's optional (see sbuild.conf) and + off by default because only machines with slow/poor connections + should use it as it's slower than using the perl FTP module due to + the overhead of spawning multiple copies of lftp. + + sbuild also now handles the case of an aborted dpkg-source + extraction by removing a .orig.tmp-nest directory if it's in the + way. + +1998-11-25 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd-reupload: New tool to reupload packages, which are + already installed, for different distributions. + + * wanna-build: There are now two new states to solve the + delayed-frozen-problem. Brief summary: If a (source) package is + for (e.g.) frozen and unstable, it will be installed in unstable + automatically, but in frozen later after acknowledgement by the + release manager. This means that quinn-diff lists the new version + for unstable earlier than for frozen, and that a build daemon + might pick up the package from unstable. Since the upload cannot + immediately go to frozen, too (the new version isn't accepted for + this yet), sbuild modifies the .changes so the upload only goes to + unstable (see sbuild change yesterday). + + But still the frozen version must be uploaded at some point. This + is now handled by wanna-build (but not really completely; a + perfect solution would have been rather hard to implement.) If + quinn-diff lists a new version of some package, and the same + version is Building or Uploaded for some other dist, the new state + will be Install-Wait instead of Needs-Build. As soon as + --merge-packages detects that that version has been installed, + Install-Wait is turned into Reupload-Wait. If the packages was + already installed in some dist at the time quinn-diff listed it, + it goes to Reupload-Wait immediately. Whenever state Reupload-Wait + is entered, the previous builder of the package receives a mail + that a reupload for a different distribution is needed. + buildd-mail will do this for some cases automatically, but + sometimes manual work will be necessary. + + Why this solution isn't perfect: If another unstable version is + installed before the previous version is needed for frozen, a + recompilation is needed. + + Similar: If a version of a package is Failed or Dep-Wait in some + other distrib and now is listed by quinn-diff for some dist, the + Failed/Dep-Wait state is copied to the new dist. + + * wanna-build: You can abbreviate the argument to -d or --dist now + as 's', 'f', or 'u'. + + * buildd-reply.el: new file with some Emacs functions that make it + easier to reply to buildd mails. + +1998-11-24 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild: If the changelog of a package wants to upload also for + "lower" (stable < frozen < unstable) distributions than the + distrib. set on the command line, then delete those distrib.s in + the Distribution: field of the resulting .changes, because + probably the package hasn't been accepted for stable or frozen, + resp., yet. Instead, write a second, modified .changes to + SAVED-CHANGES, which lists the omitted distribs in the + Distribution: field. + +1998-11-21 James Troup <james@nocrew.org> + + * do-merge-quinn: handle temporary files securely and don't + hardcode architecture. + +1998-11-20 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild, source-dependencies: Special dependencies now can also + have 'patch' subsections. These patches are applied when a source + tree has been unpacked (and the package depends on the special + dependency that has the patch subsection...) This is intended for + cases where some packages need to be patched, but the patch isn't + be appropriate for the main package. Examples are: ddd (cannot be + compiled with -g, because then needs to much memory), gcc (needs + -O in CFLAGS if compiled on a '060). For more infos on the patch + subsections, see the comment in source-dependencies. + +1998-11-19 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build: Implemented a global "maintenance" lock. Purpose: + The --merge-{packages,quinn} commands work on each distribution + separately, but the data still belong together. Concretely, it + happened that a build daemon built some packages twice, because at + the time of the first list-needs-build, they were Needs-Build for + frozen, but not yet for unstable because the unstable quinn-diff + wasn't merged in yet. The maintenance lock can be set or removed + by the --create-maintenance-lock or --remove-maintenance-lock + options, resp. If such a lock exists, every command except the two + merge commands will wait for the lock to disappear. + * do-merge-quinn, do-merge-packages: Use maintenance locks. + * Whenever sbuild does auto-givebacks, it now logs them into a + file SBUILD-GIVE-BACK, together with the current time. This list + is used later by buildd: If a give-back hasn't been done at least + $conf::delay_after_give_back minutes ago, the package will be + ignored in list-needs-build output. buildd also deletes older + entries from the file. This is to protect against loops, where + buildd takes the same packages over and over, and sbuild only + gives them back, for example because they're not on the mirror or + the files are damaged. + +1998-11-17 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild now tries to open /etc/source-dependencies-DISTRIB before + /etc/source-dependencies. This is necessary because andrea will + generate distrib-specific dependencies, so we need different files + for each dist. The fallback without -DISTRIB appended is for + compability. + +1998-11-15 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@emilio.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * In source-dependencies, more than one dependency on the same + package is now possible. (For example, one with >= relation and + the other with <<.) Dependencies of this type can be produced by + andrea. + * sbuild can now detect cases where a package would have to be + downgraded to fulfill a dependency. apt-get (how it is used + currently) cannot handle downgrades, it always upgrades to the + newest available version. Thus, in such cases a build is aborted. + +1998-11-14 James Troup <james@nocrew.org> + + * do-merge-packages now handles temporary files securely, is no + longer architecture dependent and refuses to try and merge zero + length Packages files. + +1998-11-10 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * sbuild now doesn't pass packages that are already installed in a + sufficient version to apt-get. This removes the side effect that + packages that are source dependencies are always updated to the + newest version, which is not always desired. + * In wanna-build --list, the sorting order of sections has been + changed. They're not anymore sorted alphabetically, but by some + kind of importance. This has been done because the build daemons + pick up packages in the order listed by wanna-build. + +1998-11-09 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * buildd now also checks its config file (~/buildd.conf) for + changes and rereads it if the modification time has changed. No + extra SIGHUP is needed anymore. + +1998-11-06 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * New script check-old-builds, which sends warning mails for + packages being in state Building for more than 10 days. + +1998-11-05 James Troup <james@nocrew.org> + + * buildd-mail-wrapper now checks the pid in mailer-running files + for validity (i.e. if the pid mentioned there really still exists). + +1998-11-04 Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> + + * wanna-build does not anymore send out mails for Failed->Failed + state changes ("message appended"). + * sbuild: Fixed the changes-hack-for-frozen (didn't work at all). + +# Local Variables: +# mode: change-log +# change-log-default-name: "NEWS" +# End: |