[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 1/3] delete autobuild.sh

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/03/2013 06:19 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 05:09 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>> On 04/03/2013 04:21 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 04:07:34PM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>>>> On 04/03/2013 03:01 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:12:32PM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>>>>>> There may still be an autobuild server and it may be
>>>>>> necessary for vir--manager rpms to be built by it, but
>>>>>> this script depends on autotools and will not work
>>>>>> with the current distutils approach.
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net>
>>>>> NACK, fix the script to work with distutils, don't delete it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> OK, I am not familiar with this server.  Could you provide me with
>>>> more info or point me to where I can see the environment this script
>>>> must run in?
>>> The intent is that you merely need do
>>>
>>>     export AUTOBUILD_INSTALL_ROOT=$HOME/tmp/autobuld
>>>     ./autobuild.sh
>>>
>>> and it will do a configure, build, install putting all the files into
>>> $HOME/tmp/autobuild as the install prefix. Then create a release dist
>>> and run the RPM buld.
>>>
>>>> Also, should this be a shell script or python?
>>> Shell, as now. Just need to replace the calls to 'configure' and
>>> 'make' etc with corresponding distutils shell commands. eg
>>> replace "make install" with "python setup.py install"
>>>
>> That was easy ... got the dist and rpms done, will do the install in a bit.
>>
>> The problem  (there always is one) is another of the patches I submitted ...
>> the one changing the way virt-manager version is done.  You have a choice of
>> using a "fixed" version or one based on the move recent tag (the first part
>> of git-describe). Regardless, if the tag of the git-describe is not pointing
>> to the current commit or if the base version has version-<something>, then
>> ".gityyyymmdd" is appended to the external-version-id which is used in the
>> tarball and rpm names. Thus, the result of autobuild.sh are some rpm files
>> with filenames of more than sixty bytes long.
>>
>> Any suggestions?  I would like to retain the "snapshot" id part of my
>> version patch but when mixed with "extra release", it is way too long.
>>
>> BTW, one solution is to add some "special" commands to setup.py to just
>> handle the needs of autobuild.  What would you like the "unique name" to
>> look like?
>>
> Got it all basically working although I had to do a little extra for the
> install because setup.py install modifies at least one file that git tracks
> and thus git get upset with uncommitted changes.
> 
> I need to think about how do do the version and yet make something unique for
> autobuild.  Maybe I should  use ".git$NOW" for my version and then use
> ".autobuild" for the autobuild.sh extra_release.
> 
> Suggestions appreciated.  I want to have autobuild be reasonable but I want to
> be able to get a snapshot which has a tarball/rpm version-id which indicates
> it is definitely a snapshot.
> 

In the process of finishing off the virtinst merge, I reworked autobuild.sh:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-manager.git/commit/?id=69d2aa49e4d1ffc5299e98851528f3628edaff31

But please submit patches for any further improvements you've listed.

HACKING and INSTALL also have been updated incase you are still wondering
about some of the setup.py details.

Thanks,
Cole