Recipe could support multiple distroseries
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Launchpad itself |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Martin said:
'It seems to me from the UI, that I won't be able to easily say "build this every day in Lucid, Karmic, Jaunty and Hardy". I feel
that's the way many people are using it today'
Although we could support this in the UI by creating 4 separate recipe builds from the recipe (one for each distroseries) (and I'll updated bug 513201 with this info, as it could be a good reason for having the distroseries attribute on the build), James' notes that:
"Should a recipe handle all distro series?!" - If we are going to do
this then why bother building the source package on each release?
Build the source once and then rebuild it tweaking the binary package
version? It may be slightly more work to go from a branch that can
build a source package for each release and a branch that can build a
source package that can be built on each release (small difference).
Would be a great feature to have, but I'm not sure that it's the right
place to implement it.
| James Westby (james-w) wrote | #1 |
| Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in launchpad-code: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Currently recipes are series specific, at least for the version number. In order
to build for multiple series correctly you must make sure the version numbers
are less in the older series.
We could modify the recipe format to support this somehow, but as I said
I'm not sure that it is the better solution. I think that something that works on
source packages in soyuz would be better.
Thanks,
James