[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 1/2] update autobuild.sh so it works

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/04/2013 12:49 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 12:41:30PM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>> There a some problems with autobuild.sh and this patch addresses
>> them:
>>
>> 1. Some of the tests fail so temporarily comment out
>> "prython setup.py test" until things are fixed so the tests
>> run correctly.  At that time, this should be uncommented.
>>
>> 2. "python setup.py install" needs to use --root= instead
>> of --prefix=
>>
>> 3. For the rpmbuild, use dist/*tar.gz instead of *.tar.gz
>>
>> 4. "python setup.py build" modifies the git tracked/managed
>> file po/virt-manager.pot so that you end of with uncommitted
>> changes.  To correct this: use the sdist created tarball,
>> expand it into a local/unmangerd directory and run build,
>> test, and install out of this directory.
> 
> Actually the right fix there is to just remove virt-manager.pot
> from GIT entirely. GIT shouldn't be used to track any files
> which are purely auto-generated, as the .pot file is. Only the
> .po files need to be in GIT
> 

Transifex requires the pot file to be in tree at least, there's a bit about it
here:

http://help.transifex.com/features/formats.html

- Cole